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Legal First Climate Case Filed Against NSW Water Sharing Plan

UPDATE March 2024 NSW water case discontinued after client secures government commitments  Our client, the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), has this month settled its court case against the NSW Ministers for Water and the Environment challenging the validity the Border Rivers Water Sharing Plan.  EDO’s Freshwater team filed the case on […]

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Farmers to Fight Gold Mine Proposal to Protect Water

Farmers and community members will head to the NSW IPC to oppose a proposed gold mine in central-western NSW over its impacts on water. Our lawyers are providing expert legal advice to the local community and will brief scientific experts to appear before the NSW IPC on behalf of our clients, the Belubula Headwaters Protection […]

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NSW’s Overdue Water Resource Plans Hampered by Further Delays

Dr Emma Carmody, Managing Lawyer, Freshwater TeamHuw Calford, Solicitor, Freshwater Team After more than two years of delays, a crucial element of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (Basin Plan) – NSW’s Water Resource Plans (WRPs) – remains incomplete. On 20 April 2021, the Senate Committee investigating management of the Basin Plan heard that up to 19 of […]

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EDO and clients lodge joint submission with UN Special Rapporteur on Aboriginal Water Dispossession

Walgett’s Dharriwaa Elders Group, Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations and the Environmental Defenders Office collaborated to make a joint submission responding to a call by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment for input to a report on “Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much: The Global Water Crisis and Human Rights”. […]

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EDO and clients lodge joint submission with UN Special Rapporteur on Aboriginal Water Dispossession

Walgett’s Dharriwaa Elders Group, Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations and the Environmental Defenders Office collaborated to make a joint submission responding to a call by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment for input to a report on “Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much: The Global Water Crisis and Human Rights”. […]

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New water metering laws a welcome step forward for NSW

At the start of this month, our EDO Freshwater team were pleased to see the NSW Government roll out the first stage of its non-urban water metering framework.  The new metering laws aim to create a robust metering framework to improve the standard and coverage of non-urban water meters across the state and help build […]

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Floodplain harvesting: without the necessary protections, legal action is a risk

In a recent submission on floodplain harvesting, the EDO and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists argued that “conferring permanent property rights to irrigators is a windfall transfer of public wealth that should be considered only once public good outcomes can be guaranteed, including for Aboriginal Nations who are disproportionately disadvantaged under the current policy […]

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Case Summary: Corporate Irrigator found guilty of breaching the Water Management Act

Dr Emma Carmody, Special CounselKimberley Slapp, Legal Intern Introduction Australia is an extremely dry continent that is in the process of becoming drier, including across swathes of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). For example, recently published research found that by 2070, most of Lake Eyre and parts of the MDB could become enveloped by the arid […]

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Analysis: Beyond ‘shut-up water’, Getting water sharing plans to work for rivers and people

By Dr Emma Carmody, EDO Special Counsel and water law expert It’s 2018 and I’m standing in the far west of NSW on the banks of the Darling River, or Barka, as it is known to its Traditional Custodians, the Barkindji people. I’m listening to Barkindji elder Uncle Badger Bates explain what he means by […]

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