This proposal consists of 11 components. Departmental expenses for the components are included in capped amounts, unless otherwise specified.

Component 1 – Department of the Environment and Energy

• Element 1: Provide $1,235.7 million, with the following profile, from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to the Department of the Environment and Energy (the Department) to hire additional staff.

	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29	2029-30
$m	39.0	71.0	96.0	111.0	116.0	120.0	126.0	131.0	136.0	142.0	147.7

 

 

 

• Element 2: Provide $40 million per year from 2019-20 to 2023-24 to the Department to produce and update Threatened Species Recovery Plans.
• Element 3: Provide $20 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to the Department to administer a grants funding program to deliver conservation covenant monitoring.
• Element 4: Provide $1.5 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to the Long-term Ecological Research Network.
• Element 5: Provide $3 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to the National Climate Change Adaption Research Facility.

Component 2 – National Reserve System program

• Element 1: Provide $15 million to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in 2019-20 to tender an expansion of the Indigenous Protected Areas network.
• Element 2: Provide additional funding of $20 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to the Indigenous Protected Areas program through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
• Element 3: Provide $78.3 million, with the following profile, from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to establish land parcels that are free of invasive species:

	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29	2029-30
$m	3.83	5.06	6.29	7.52	8.75	9.98	7.38	7.38	7.38	7.38	7.38

 

 

 

• Element 4: Provide $0.8 million per year from 2019-20 to 2022-23 to the Australian Seed Bank Partnership.
• Element 5: Provide funding to the National Reserve System program, which would take the total funding for this component to $200 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30.

Component 3 – Land managers

• Provide funding to train and employ land managers from 2019-20.
  • Element 1: 2,000 places in land manager training would be offered each year from 2019-20 to 2023-24. This element would comprise free Technical and Further Education (TAFE) training but would not involve any additional stipends. Recipients of a training place must be Australian residents for tax purposes.
  • Element 2: Upon successful completion of their training, graduates would be employed by the Commonwealth Government as land managers. All land managers would be Australian residents for tax purposes.

Component 4 – Landscape restoration

• Element 1: Provide $83.5 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to Landcare.
• Element 2: Provide $5.3 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to fund the ‘Whole of Paddock Rehabilitation’ program.
• Element 3: Provide $72.5 million per year from 2019-20 to 2023-24 to establish the ‘Local Greening Program’ grants program for local councils.
• Element 4: Provide funding to establish a grants program that would provide $25,000 packages to landowners to fund conservation works. The total funding would be $25 million in 2019-20 and would be indexed by the wage price index each year until 2029-30.
• Element 5: Provide funding which would take total funding for this component to $500 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30.

Component 5 – Invasive species

• Provide $140 million per year from 2019-20 to 2029-30 to develop invasive species threat abatement plans and a National Invasive Species Action Plan.

Component 6 – Threatened Species Recovery Plans

• Provide $455 million per year for the implementation of Threatened Species Recovery Plans over the period from 2019-20 to 2029-30.

Component 7 – Farming subsidies

• Provide $80 million per year in ongoing grants funding for agricultural purchases of non-synthetic farming inputs and runoff-reducing infrastructure.

Component 8 – National Bushfire Mitigation Program

• Re-instate the National Bushfire Mitigation Program and provide funding of $9.5 million per year from 2019-20 to 2021-22.

Component 9 – Director of National Parks

• Provide additional funding of $578.9 million, with the following profile, to the Director of National Parks from 2019-20 to 2029-30.

	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29	2029-30
$m	44.0	48.0	50.0	51.0	52.0	53.0	54.0	55.0	56.0	57.0	58.9

 

 

 

Component 10 – Commercial fisheries compensation

• Provide $247 million from 2019-20 to 2022-23 to make compensation payments to commercial fisheries.

Component 11 – Environmental Defenders' Offices and Conservation Councils

• Provide ongoing funding to Environmental Defenders’ Offices and Conservation Councils.
  • Administered funding for Environment Defenders’ Offices would start at $3.8 million in 2019-20 and would be indexed by the consumer price index (CPI).
  • Administered funding for Conservation Councils would start at $5.8 million per year and would be indexed by CPI.
  • Departmental expenses for this component only would be additional to the capped amounts.

The proposal would have effect from 1 July 2019.