# Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment

The Northern Territory Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment is a Minister of the Crown in the Government of the Northern Territory. The minister administers their portfolio through the Department of Lands, Planning and Environment.
The Minister is responsible for Aboriginal carbon and water policy, biodiversity conservation and assessment, climate change, the conservation of pastoral land, environmental protection and sustainability, environment strategy and policy, environmental assessment, environmental compliance and enforcement, land and water resources assessment and management, pastoral land administration, rural bushfire management, strategic direction on environmental matters, volunteer bushfire management and weed management. This also includes responsibility for the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority.
The Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment also has responsibilities for Aboriginal sacred sites, and oversees the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA).
When Eva Lawler (Labor) was appointed to the ministry in 2018, it was expanded to include the responsibilities of the formerly distinct Land Resource Management ministry.

## List of ministers
### Environment and natural resources

| Minister | Party | Term | Ministerial title |
| Ian Tuxworth | Country Liberal | 1 December 1982 – 12 December 1983 | Minister for Primary Production and Conservation |
| Noel Padgham-Purich | Country Liberal | 13 December 1983 – 20 December 1984 | Minister for Housing and Conservation |
| Stephen Hatton | Country Liberal | 21 December 1984 – 28 April 1986 | Minister for Conservation |
| Barry Coulter | Country Liberal | 29 April 1986 – 14 May 1986 | Minister for Conservation |
| Terry McCarthy | Country Liberal | 15 May 1986 – 18 March 1987 | Minister for Conservation |
| Ray Hanrahan | Country Liberal | 19 March 1987 – 20 December 1987 | Minister for Conservation |
| Daryl Manzie | Country Liberal | 21 December 1987 – 3 September 1989 | Minister for Conservation |
| Stephen Hatton | Country Liberal | 4 September 1989 – 12 November 1990 | Minister for Conservation |
| Mike Reed | Country Liberal | 13 November 1990 – 29 November 1992 | Minister for Conservation |
| Daryl Manzie | Country Liberal | 30 November 1992 – 15 September 1993 | Minister for Conservation |
| Barry Coulter | Country Liberal | 16 September 1993 – 30 June 1995 | Minister for Conservation |
| Mike Reed | Country Liberal | 1 July 1995 – 14 September 1997 | Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment |
| Mick Palmer | Country Liberal | 15 September 1997 – 7 December 1998 | Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment |
| Tim Baldwin | Country Liberal | 8 December 1998 – 26 August 2001 | Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment |
| Kon Vatskalis | Labor | 27 August 2001 – 12 November 2001 | Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment |
| Kon Vatskalis | Labor | 13 November 2001 – 17 October 2002 | Minister for the Environment |
| Chris Burns | Labor | 18 October 2002 – 14 December 2003 | Minister for the Environment and Heritage |
| Marion Scrymgour | Labor | 15 December 2003 – 10 July 2005 | Minister for the Environment and Heritage |
| Marion Scrymgour | Labor | 11 July 2005 – 6 August 2007 | Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage |
| Delia Lawrie | Labor | 7 August 2007 – 29 November 2007 | Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage |
| Len Kiely | Labor | 30 November 2007 – 17 August 2008 | Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage |
| Alison Anderson | Labor | 18 August 2008 – 5 August 2009 | Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage |
| Karl Hampton | Labor | 6 August 2009 – 28 August 2012 | Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage |
| Terry Mills | Country Liberal | 29 August 2012 – 3 September 2012 | Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage |
| Terry Mills | Country Liberal | 4 September 2012 – 13 December 2012 | Minister for Lands, Planning and the Environment |
| Peter Chandler | Country Liberal | 14 December 2012 – 11 December 2014 | Minister for Lands, Planning and the Environment |
| Gary Higgins | Country Liberal | 12 December 2014 – 27 August 2016 | Minister for the Environment |
| Michael Gunner | Labor | 31 August 2016 – 11 September 2016 | Minister for the Environment |
| Lauren Moss | Labor | 12 September 2016 – 26 June 2018 | Minister for Environment and Natural Resources |
| Eva Lawler | Labor | 27 June 2018 – 23 May 2022 | Minister for Environment and Natural Resources |
| Joshua Burgoyne | Country Liberal | 28 August 2024 – present | Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment Minister for Water Resources |

### Renewables

| Minister | Minister | Party | Term | Ministerial title |
| | Paul Henderson | Labor | 30 November 2007 – 3 December 2009 | Minister for Climate Change |
| | Karl Hampton | Labor | 4 December 2009 – 28 August 2012 | Minister for Climate Change |
| | Terry Mills | Country Liberal | 29 August 2012 – 3 September 2012 | Minister for Climate Change |
| 4 September 2012 – 20 December 2018: no minister – responsibilities held by other ministers |||||
| | Eva Lawler | Labor | 21 December 2018 – 23 May 2022 | Minister for Climate Change |
| | Gerard Maley | Country Liberal | 28 August 2024 – present | Minister for Mining and Energy Minister for Renewables |

### Parks and Wildlife

| Minister | Minister | Party | Term | Ministerial title |
| | Marie-Clare Boothby | Country Liberal | 28 August 2024 – present | Minister for Parks and Wildlife |

## Former posts
### Land resource management

| Minister | Party | Term | Ministerial title |
| Terry Mills | Country Liberal | 4 September 2012 – 13 December 2012 | Minister for Land Resource Management |
| Willem Westra van Holthe | Country Liberal | 14 December 2012 – 14 February 2016 | Minister for Land Resource Management |
| Gary Higgins | Country Liberal | 15 February 2016 – 27 August 2016 | Minister for Land Resource Management |
| Michael Gunner | Labor | 31 August 2016 – 11 September 2016 | Minister for Land Resource Management |