The proposal consists of 30 components and would start from 1 July 2022. Departmental expenses would be included in the capped amounts, unless otherwise specified.

Component 1 – Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE)

• Element 1 would provide $1,088 million, with the following profile from 2022-23 to 2031-32 to the DAWE to employ additional staff.

	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29	2029-30	2030-31	2031-32
$m	39	71	96	111	116	120	126	131	136	142

• Element 2 would provide $40 million per year for 5 years to the DAWE to produce and update threatened species recovery plans.
• Element 3 would provide $20 million in grants funding per year towards conservation covenant monitoring.
• Element 4 would provide $1.5 million per year to the Long-term Ecological Research Network.
• Element 5 would commit $3 million per year to the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.

Component 2 – National Reserve System Program

• Element 1 would allocate $71 million over a decade, with the following profile and funding ceasing in 2031-32, to establish land parcels that are free of invasive species.

	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29	2029-30	2030-31	2031-32
$m	3.83	5.06	6.29	7.52	8.75	9.98	7.38	7.38	7.38	7.38

• Element 2 would provide $2.4 million over 3 years to the Australia Seed Bank Partnership.
• Element 3 would provide funding to the National Reserve System program to take total funding for Component 2 to $200 million per year.

Component 3 would provide funding to train and employ land managers.

• Land manager average salaries would be comparable to Australian Public Service (APS) salaries.
• Land managers would need to complete 2 years of Vocational Education and Training (VET) training (without cost), with 2,000 scholarships per year being made available to successful applicants.

Component 4 – Landscape restoration

• Element 1 would provide $83.5 million per year to Landcare.
• Element 2 would provide $5.3 million per year to fund the Whole of Paddock Program. 
• Element 3 would provide $72.5 million per year for 5 years to establish a grants funding program for local councils, the Local Greening Program.
• Element 4 would establish a capped $25 million per year grant program with funds allocated for approved conservation works at the beginning of each financial year. It would provide $25,000 packages that are indexed to the wage price index to landowners to fund conservation works beginning 1 July 2022.
• Element 5 would provide funding to further landscape restoration projects to take total funding for Component 4 to $500 million per year.

Component 5 would provide $140 million per year to the development of invasive species threat abatement plans and a National Invasive Species Action plan.

Component 6 would negotiate with state and territory governments to end native clearing and would provide $20 million for forestry research over 4 years. The Australian Government would not fund compensation payments to affected landholders.

Component 7 would provide $455 million per year to the implement the Threatened Species Recovery Plans.

Component 8 would provide $80 million per year in grant funding for agricultural purchases of non-synthetic farming input and runoff reducing infrastructure.

Component 9 would reinstate the National Bushfire Mitigation Program and provide funding of $9.5 million per year from 2022-23 to 2024-25.

Component 10 would provide additional funding of $520 million to the Director of National Parks from 2022-23 to 2031-32, with the following profile.

	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29	2029-30	2030-31	2031-32
$m	44	48	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57

Component 11 would provide $247 million from 2022-23 to 2025-26 to make compensation payments to commercial fisheries.

Component 12 would provide $150 million to the rehabilitation of major rivers and lakes in Australian cities to be clean enough to swim in within the next decade, ceasing in 2031-32. This funding would go towards investing in water treatment, environmental clean-up and storm water harvesting.

Component 13 would provide ongoing funding to Environmental Defenders’ Offices and Conservation Councils, which would be indexed to the consumer price index (CPI). For 2022-23, administered funding for Environmental Defenders’ Offices would be $3.8 million and for Conservation Councils $5.8 million. Departmental expenses for Component 13 would be in addition to the capped amounts.

Component 14 would provide an additional $6 million per year for 5 years to the Wet Tropics Management Authority, with $4 million per year to the Authority and $2 million for the Townsville eradication efforts.

Component 15 would create a new independent statutory national environmental protection agency (EPA), which would administer and enforce national environmental laws. Ongoing funding would be $150 million per year, indexed to the CPI. This would include the existing funding from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s Program 1.5: Environmental Regulation.

Component 16 would fund a $60 million Federal Royal Commission over 2 years into the administration of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Component 17 would suspend all payments for ‘water-saving measures’ relating to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. These would include ‘supply and constraint measures’ and ‘efficiency measures’ from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan sustainable diversion limit adjustment projects.

Component 18 would use water buybacks to fill the shortfall from the 450 gigalitre (GL) per year target currently set for the efficiency measures, to complete the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in full and on time.

Component 19 would conduct a full audit of water licences and storage throughout the Murray-Darling Basin including both domestic and internationally held licenses.

Component 20 would establish a $2 billion grant fund, administered through the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, with profits to be dispersed as grants to support improved farming practices and restoration projects.

Component 21 would recoup the balance of the $443.4 million funding previously given to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and increase funding to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Australian Institute of Marine Science by $90 million per year over 3 years.

Component 22 would fund negotiations with the states and territories to end native forestry logging. The Australian Government would not fund compensation payments to affected landholders.

Component 23 – Farm forestry

• Element 1 would provide $10 million in 2022-23 to research and plan a strategy on how the forestry sector could sustainably support Australia’s transition to net zero emissions.
• Element 2 would provide $20 million over 4 years to fund the research and development of sustainable wood products.
• Element 3 would provide $40 million over 4 years to provide support for farm forestry through the regional farm forestry hubs

Component 24 would provide $20 million in 2022-23 to prioritise a recovery plan for giant kelp. Departmental expenses would be in addition to the capped amounts.

Component 25 would provide $40 million funding in 2022-23 to establish an Invasive Marine Species Unit within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Component 26 would provide $0.5 million in 2022-23 for a Great Southern Reef Special Envoy.

Component 27 would provide $50 million funding evenly spread over 10 years towards research and development of non-lethal shark control measures, ceasing in 2031-32. Departmental expenses would be in addition to capped amounts.

Component 28 would provide $20 million, evenly spread over 5 years, to create new locations and support existing areas to strengthen the conservation and protection of the marine environment.

Component 29 would provide $50 million evenly spread over 5 years, towards wetlands and coastal restoration projects, including tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrasses.

Component 30 would reverse the $128.5 million environmental law reform (terminating in 2025-26) measure in the 2022-23 Budget.