The 2025-26 Budget includes:
Caring for our environment
- $63 million of additional resources to prevent and respond to biosecurity threats.
- $8 million investment in the Bindjareb Djilba (Peel-Harvey Estuary) Protection Plan.
- $17 million to deliver the Treebates and Urban Canopy Program and build greener, leafier towns and suburbs.
- $5 million for the Healthy Oceans Fund to support our underwater ecosystem through seagrass bed restoration projects and research.
- $20 million to further expand the Aboriginal Ranger program.
- $750,000 to support Plastic Free July.
Enjoying our environment
- $100 million in upgrades to Rottnest Island essential infrastructure and to revitalise B Shed in Fremantle to improve access to Rottnest.
- $21 million to make it easier for more Western Australians to enjoy the great outdoors, including boating and maritime facilities, campgrounds and trails that build on our $165 million Outdoor Adventure Package investment last year.
Renewable energy
- $584 million investment to unlock wind generation north of Perth and to expand renewable generation, enabling the shutdown of coal-fired power stations by 2030.
- $337 million for the Residential Battery Scheme - ensuring tens of thousands of households can store renewable power and help secure WAs energy future.
- $50 million to support local battery manufacturing and make batteries here in WA.
Achievements
The highly successful Containers for Change program has seen more than 3 billion containers diverted from landfill since its launch in 2020, and we are preparing to extend the scheme to wine and spirit bottles.
Since 2017, 6.5 million hectares of new national parks, marine parks and nature reserves have been created.
The $350 million allocated to the Softwood Plantation Expansion Fund is continuing to be used to support the move to a more sustainable forest industry.