Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Draft Environmental Management and Pollution Control Amendment Bill 2022 (the Bill). EDO has recently released its national report Implementing effective independent Environmental Protection Agencies in Australia: Best practice environmental governance for environmental justice (Best Practice EPA report). You can read the report here. In […]
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14 million hectares burned. Nearly 3 billion native animals impacted. Entire communities all but destroyed.
We have a plan to defend what remains. […]
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This factsheet canvasses the Environment Protection Act 2019 (NT), which commenced in the Northern Territory on 28 June 2020, replacing the Environment Assessment Act 1982 (NT) and the EnvironmentalAssessment Administrative Procedures (NT). […]
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Are you a landholder interested in helping threatened species and ecosystems recover from the bushfires? Following the devastating 2019-2020 bushfires, landholders are in a unique position to contribute meaningfully to bushfire recovery and the long-term protection of biodiversity across NSW through private land conservation. EDO, in collaboration with WWF-Australia, hosted a free, introductory webinar in May […]
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EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the draft Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022 (‘the Bill’). Having previously provided detailed comments on the draft Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2021, EDO strongly supports the proposal to repeal the flawed and unconstitutional Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act 2014 (Tas). However, EDO considers that […]
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EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the draft Land Use Planning and Approvals (Amendment) Bill 2022 (‘Bill’). This Bill introduces amendments to the major projects assessment process. EDO supports the intent of a number of the amendments proposed in the Bill. However, on the whole, EDO considers that the changes proposed under this Bill […]
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This submission responds to the Tasmanian Government’s Consultation Paper: A new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Protection Act. EDO’s submission makes recommendations to strengthen the proposed new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Protection Act to reflect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples principles of free, prior and informed consent and self-determination. […]
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On-Country evidence in Youth Verdict and The Bimblebox Alliance’s historic human rights legal challenge to Clive Palmer’s proposed Galilee Coal Project will be heard from 16-20th May 2022 and in locations across Gimuy (Cairns) and the Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands) of Erub and Poruma. The court will travel to the traditional lands of First […]
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Thank you so much for joining us as an Environmental Defender with a generous monthly donation! Your support is helping to drive legal action to protect threatened wildlife like our Tasmanian devils. Endangered Tasmanian devils are too important to be risked as roadkill for mining profits. Legal action is one of the most effective tools […]
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Thank you so much for joining EDO as an Environmental Defender. Your monthly donation forms the backbone of our legal work. As an Environmental Defender, you are powering some of Australia’s biggest court cases for nature. Your generosity drives the legal fight to protect our climate, communities, and wildlife. Thank you from all of us […]
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