Commonwealth of Australia Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations for Listing Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes for the Assessment Period Commencing 1 October 2017 I, JOSH FRYDENBERG, Minister for the Environment and Energy under section 194D of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), determine the following conservation theme be given priority in relation to the assessment period commencing 1 October 2017: Freshwater species and ecological communities Josh Frydenberg Minister for the Environment and Energy Dated 15 December 2016