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We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the sovereign Traditional Owners of Australia and thank them for their stewardship of this Country, its lands, waters and skies. We respectfully acknowledge their culture and customary practices, and pay respect to their Ancestors, Elders and future leaders.

For the first time, the State of the Environment report includes a strong Indigenous narrative across all 12 thematic chapters, a narrative crafted through recognising the leadership, collaboration and authorship of Indigenous Australians who continue their connection as Traditional Owners to their lands, waters and skies.

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On 28 March 2025 the government assumed a Caretaker role. Information on websites maintained by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water will be published in accordance with the Guidance on Caretaker Conventions until after the conclusion of the caretaker period.

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Figure 11 Budj Bim cultural landscape
Figure 12 Changes in greenhouse gas emissions, by category, 2017–20
Figure 13 Changes in the number of dangerous fire weather days between 1950–85 and 1985–2020
Figure 14 2019–20 bushfires, Braidwood North fire range
Figure 15 Impact of major bushfire events on human lives, homes and area burned since 1939
Figure 16 Areas of potential threatened species habitat and threatened ecological communities that were cleared, classed as compliant and noncompliant loss, 2000–17
Maps showing that noncompliant loss is most common in inland southern Western Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and uncommon in other states.

Note: Compliant loss occurs with a referral under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Noncompliant loss occurs without a referral. Three panels highlight the southern Western Australia coast (left), Tasmania (middle) and northern Queensland coast (right).

Source: Ward et al. (2019)

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Figure 17 Sources of energy, 2008–09 to 2018–19; and average annual change by category, 2009–10 to 2018–19
Figure 18 Energy sector CO2 emissions between 1990 and 2020, with projections to 2030
Figure 19 Solar panel array, Northern Territory
Figure 20 Cumulative number of the first detections of introduced terrestrial species anywhere in Australia or remote territories