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This State-led competitive grant program addresses water efficiency in both the delivery system and user connections in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district with 102 gigalitres (long term average annual yield) of project water savings transferred to the Commonwealth. The funding agreement provides for a connection/reconnection/disconnection of individual irrigators to a "backbone" irrigation delivery system with a share of the water savings arising from the project transferred to the Commonwealth.

This agreement gives certainty to one of Australia's most important food producing regions and represents a strategic recovery of water for the Commonwealth.

To assist in improving the efficiency and productivity of water use and management on-farm, helping to secure a sustainable future for irrigation communities.

To upgrade on-farm water infrastructure and strengthen the capacity of irrigators to adopt more efficient water management practices, reduce water losses and improve productivity. Water savings arising from project works will be transferred to the Commonwealth for environmental use. These projects improve the efficiency and productivity of water use and management on-farm, helping to secure a sustainable future for irrigation communities.

To assist irrigators to modernise their on-farm irrigation infrastructure and improve water use efficiency while returning water savings to the environment.

To modernise and improve the efficiency of their on-farm irrigation infrastructure and return the resulting water savings to the environment.

To achieve sustainability and prosperity with the planned outcome to increase economic, social and environmental benefits for Australian fishing and aquaculture, and the wider community by investing in knowledge, innovation and marketing.

Five new Australian Marine Park management plans covering 44 Australian Marine Parks came into effect on 1 July 2018. This bring the total of Australian Marine Parks managed by the Director of National Parks, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia, to 58 – covering around 1/3 of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone at some 2.7 million km2.

As part of the coming into effect the Australian Government provides transitional assistance to fishers directly affected by the new management arrangements as well as Grant to engage those sectors and groups with an interest in Australian Marine Parks the opportunity to undertake projects that contribute to their management.

The Package provides:

(i) Fishing Business Assistance Grant – assistance to directly affected commercial fishers with a recent history of fishing in Australian Marine Parks as they adjust their business to the new operating environment.

(ii) Our Marine Parks Grant – to help marine users and industries engage in marine park management. The first round of the element of the package closed on 12 March 2019. The second round will open in the second half of 2019.

(iii) Vessel Monitoring System Assistance -to encourage uptake of vessel monitoring systems. This element is being progressed through Parks Australia and fisheries management agencies.

(iv) Coral Sea Fishery Licence Buy-out – direct assistance to commercial fishers holding either trawl or trap endorsements in the Commonwealth managed Coral Sea Fishery through a voluntary licence buy-back based on the closure of 99.8% of the fishery to these methods.

The package is funded and managed through the Department of the Environment and Energy. Australian Marine Parks are Commonwealth reserves in Commonwealth marine areas declared under section 344 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The Director of National Parks manages Australian Marine Parks.

To encourages competitive investment and innovation in the Australian automotive industry in a way that will provide improved environmental outcomes and promote the development of workforce skills.

The program aimed to support a small number of demonstration projects to:
• capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes;
• provide transport infrastructure (generally pipelines); and
• safely store carbon dioxide underground in stable geological formations.

The Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package (CMATSP) was designed to provide assistance to the coal industry to reduce fugitive methane emissions, in particular ventilation air methane (VAM), by facilitating research and deployment of methane abatement technologies. The CMATSP also aimed to supplement and support the coal industry's own research activities to pilot innovative technologies to capture and mitigate methane emissions and to develop safe abatement practices.