CURRENT LEGAL FACT SHEETS

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Accessing Information

• Right to Information Act - Making Applications for Access - prepared by EDO NQ - Oct 2009
• Right to Information Act - Reviewing Decisions - prepared by EDO NQ - Oct 2009
• Useful contacts and access to information - June 2010

Coal Seam Gas Exploration

• Coal Seam Gas, Community Submission Rights and the Environmental Protection Act
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Commonwealth Environmental Laws

• Commonwealth Laws: the EPBC Act
• EPBC referral checklist and example submission

Defamation

• Tips for activitists: ducking defamation and slipping SLAPP suits

Environmental Protection - Pollution

• Community rights and the Environment Protection Act 1994

Mining

• Community rights to object to mines - March 2011
• Example of mining lease objection
• Mining and Coal Seam Gas - an overview

Nature Conservation - Species and Areas

• Community rights and the Nature Conservation Act
• Qld Koala Conservation Laws - January 2011
• State and Federal biodiversity laws in action

Peaceful Protests

• Peaceful protests and your rights - May 2011

Pesticides

• Pesticide laws in Queensland- June 2011

Petitions

• Lawful Petitions

Planning - Overview

• Introduction to the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA)
• Ecological Sustainability: The Purpose of the Sustainable Planning Act

Planning - Challenging Development

• About the Community Litigants Handbook - EDO publication
• Development Approvals
• Making Submissions on Development Applications
• Co-responding to a Planning and Environment Court Appeal

Planning - Planning Instruments

• Planning Schemes and Significant Projects
• Urban Land Development Act 2007 (ULDA) - April 2011
• Planning Schemes and other Planning Instruments
• Making Effective Submissions on Planning Schemes

Vegetation Protection

• Queensland Vegetation Protection Laws

Water

• Community rights and the Water Act

Using the Law in Community Campaigns

• The Community in Planning and Environment Law
• How to fight and how not to fight - Andrew Sinclair handout, EDO AGM - September 2008
• Paper by Dr Chris McGrath on using Federal environmental laws in the public interest - July 2008 (this is a link to an external page)

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