A number of Factsheets are available below on a range environmental law and planning law subjects, and other related matters. Some are produced jointly by EDO-NQ and EDO Queensland, whilst others have been produced by those offices alone.  All Factsheets produced by EDO-NQ and/or EDO Queensland are available for viewing or downloading, see below.

• Defamation EDO-NQ Defamation and Slapp suits Factsheet - Feb 2008
• Freedom of Information – Commonwealth (being prepared)
• Freedom of Information – Queensland FOI - Jan 2008
• Peaceful Protest and Your Rights (being prepared)

Planning Law Fact Sheets

EDO Qld have produced a series of detailed fact sheets which are also available via this website.  Please note that the fact sheets address Queensland law specifically and do not apply to other States.  

1. Introduction to the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (Qld) (“IPA”)
2. Ecological Sustainability: the Purpose of the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (Qld)
3. Planning Schemes and other Planning Instruments
4. (Being prepared) 
5. Making Effective Submissions on Planning Schemes
6. Development Approvals
7. Making Submissions on Development Applications
8. Public Access to Information and Planning Processes and Development Applications
9. The Planning and Environment Court
10. Appealing and Enforcing Development Approvals
11. Environmental Impact Assessment in Queensland
12. The Structure and Operations or Local Government

Also available on EDO Queensland’s website are a range of Information Sheets including copies of Workshop handouts on the following topics:

• Accessing Information
• Climate Change
• Coastal Protection
• Commonwealth Environmental Laws
• Defamation
• Environmental Protection - Pollution
• Heritage
• Mining
• Nature Conservation - Species and Areas
• Peaceful Protests
• Petitions
• Planning and Challenging Development
• Planning - Planning Schemes
• Planning - Regional Plans
• Vegetation Protection
• Water

The following EDO-NQ factsheets available are currently under reveiw:

•  Factsheet - Wet Tropics World Heritage Area 208.21 Kb (To be reveiwed)
•  Factsheet - Heritage 628.20 Kb (To be reveiwed)
•  Factsheet - Protection of Vegetation in planning schemes in Cairns 175.80 Kb (To be reveiwed)
•  Factsheet - An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Law 383.69 Kb (To be reveiwed)