DCCEEW Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Leads national policy on climate change and energy and protects the environment, heritage and water.
Releases by month
| Month | Releases |
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| Nov 2024 | 29 |
| Dec 2024 | 39 |
| Jan 2025 | 25 |
| Feb 2025 | 16 |
| Mar 2025 | 20 |
| Apr 2025 | 18 |
| May 2025 | 12 |
| Jun 2025 | 19 |
| Jul 2025 | 18 |
| Aug 2025 | 22 |
| Sep 2025 | 27 |
| Oct 2025 | 26 |
| Nov 2025 | 19 |
| Dec 2025 | 27 |
| Jan 2026 | 19 |
| Feb 2026 | 18 |
| Mar 2026 | 16 |
| Apr 2026 | 22 |
| May 2026 | 21 |
| Jun 2026 | 33 |
| Jul 2026 | 17 |
| Aug 2026 | 26 |
| Sep 2026 | 31 |
| Oct 2026 | 10 |
Latest releases
All 595 releases from DCCEEW, with filters-
DCCEEW Released
Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs) transactions from 1 May 2025 to 1 May 2026
This FOI release comprises spreadsheet-style transaction and case registers covering 1 May 2025 to 1 May 2026, labelled as Independent Medical Examination (IME) transactions. Document 1 lists invoices from providers including Rehab Management (AUST), The Rehabilitation Company…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents regarding Cheaper Home Batteries program which contain the phrase "fraud"
This FOI release comprises a February 2026 Additional Estimates brief from the Clean Energy Regulator (CER), part of the DCCEEW portfolio, covering compliance and investigations across its schemes. It addresses fraud in the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme, including the…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents regarding 2026 variation of the lease for Uluṟu–Kata Tjuṯa National Park
This release contains briefings, decision documents, draft deed materials and delegation instruments relating to the 2026 variation of the Head Lease for Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, between the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa Aboriginal Land Trust and the Director of National Parks. The…
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DCCEEW Released
Briefs and emails regarding Fuel and Fertiliser Security Facility
This release contains emails, briefs and attachments from DCCEEW's Energy Security Taskforce concerning the Fuel and Fertiliser Security Facility, administered with Export Finance Australia (EFA). The material covers April 2026 correspondence between DCCEEW, the Prime Minister…
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DCCEEW Released
The Prioritisation Review of DCCEEW conducted by Australian Government Consulting and finalised in May 2026
This FOI release is a May 2026 internal strategy report, prepared by Australian Government Consulting for DCCEEW, on reprioritising the department's work to "do fewer things, better" in response to a declining budget and the Capability Review. It proposes a five-step process…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents regarding Climate Active and promotional statements
This release contains web content drafts and internal review comments for the Climate Active carbon neutral certification program, administered by DCCEEW. Document types are published web pages for events and certification, with redlined edits and comments from departmental…
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DCCEEW Released
Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner Complaints Handling Policy and Information Handling Policy
The release comprises two policy documents from the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner's Office, both marked as Version 4 and dated August 2023: a Complaints Handling Policy and an Information Handling Policy. They set out how the Commissioner receives and handles…
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DCCEEW Released
All documents describing, discussing or reviewing any formal management directions
The release contains four email documents, with Documents 1, 2 and 4 being copies of the same internal workplace health and safety exchange, dated 16 to 17 October 2025, from the People Safety, Support and Wellbeing Branch. A Branch Head issued a formal management direction…
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DCCEEW Released
Application forms for Overflow Badge scheme for COP28, COP29, COP30 and COP31
This FOI release comprises application forms and process documents for Australian Party Overflow Badges to attend the UN climate conferences COP28, COP29, COP30 and COP31. The forms seek personal details including passport and residence information, the applicant's category and…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents concerning leave, outside employment and conflict of interest arrangements regarding Climate Active
The release is a single recruitment document, a temporary higher-duties opportunity for an EL2 Director position within the Climate Active Strategy and Engagement team, for approximately 12 months from February 2024. The document describes the Climate Change Policy, Adaptation…
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DCCEEW Released
Internal Artificial Intelligence Use Case Register
This FOI release is an extract from DCCEEW's internal Artificial Intelligence Use Case Register, comprising two tabular documents. The first lists three scientific AI use cases from the Office of the Supervising Scientist and Parks, covering machine learning for environmental…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents concerning attendance of heads of government at the leaders-level event Tuvalu for Pre-COP – July 2026
This FOI release from DCCEEW comprises emails, briefing material and talking points concerning the Pre-COP Leaders' event for COP31, to be held in Tuvalu on 5 and 6 October 2026 ahead of the main Pre-COP in Fiji. The documents cover attendance by Pacific and other heads of…
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DCCEEW Released
Correspondence related to potentially H5N1 infected birds found in WA in the period from 14 June to 19 June 2026
The release comprises email correspondence, talking points, draft media materials and ministerial press drafts from DCCEEW and DAFF, dated mid-to-late June 2026, about a suspected H5 bird flu (H5N1) case in a wild bird with clinical signs in south-west Western Australia, with a…
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DCCEEW Released
List of Ministerial submissions for July and August 2026
This release is an index of Ministerial submissions from July and August 2026 rather than the documents themselves, so it contains no assessment reports, scientific advice or compliance notices. It lists titles and dates for around 25 briefs, almost all concerning energy and…
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DCCEEW Released
Back pocket brief titled Rewiring the Nation Details (EC26-000178)
This FOI release is a DCCEEW Back Pocket Brief (EC26-000178) on the Rewiring the Nation program, which provides $21.2 billion in low-cost finance and underwriting for electricity grid expansion. It sets out administered funding (a $19.65 billion CEFC RtN Fund allocation, a $1.5…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents regarding Climate Active launch event in November 2019
The released document text contains no substantive content. It consists only of repeated release stamps reading "LEX 83650 DOCUMENT 1 Released by DCCEEW under the FOI Act 1982", with no readable body text. The document title refers to documents regarding the Climate Active…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents relating to the current financial position of the DRIVEN Charger Rebate Stream
This release contains a single email, dated 21 August 2026, from a senior policy officer in DCCEEW's Emissions Reduction Division to a colleague, subject "DGN25-12: Updated Rebates Funding Profile". It confirms a new current funding profile for the DRIVEN Charger Rebate Stream…
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DCCEEW Released
Independent technical assessments or technical reviews conducted for savannah burning and human-induced regeneration methods
The release, dated 21 September 2026, contains an independent technical assessment of the draft Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Savanna Fire Management Methodology Determination 2015, commissioned by the Department of the Environment against ten criteria. The…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents concerning when the Heritage.gov.au website and domain were decommissioned and the approval process for their decommissioning
The release concerns the legacy heritage.gov.au domain, which was decommissioned without a redirect to the department's current heritage webpage. It comprises emails between Heritage Policy and Strategy and web admin staff, a January 2026 ministerial correspondence draft…
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DCCEEW Released
Documents which contain final iterations of analysis/considerations to expand the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme
This release contains three Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water briefing documents and a letter from Minister Chris Bowen to the Prime Minister, all concerning the extension of the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) to mid-scale solar PV…