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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Your generous donation 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 we have to enforce laws to protect wildlife, and with your support we are giving […]
First nations justice must be central to reform of Queensland’s Cultural Heritage Acts EDO, in consultation with our First Nations clients and other First Nations peoples, has provided a submission on the last stage of the Queensland Governments’ review of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) and the Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) (Cultural Heritage Acts). View […]
EDO is very supportive of Petition 32-21 (No Rights Without Remedy), which proposes to amend the ACT’s Human Rights Act to introduce an informal and accessible human rights complaint mechanism. Our submission analyses the Human Rights Act from an environmental perspective, identifies 5 main barriers to access to justice under the current Act, and makes […]
The Camberwell and Hunter community is celebrating following the news Yancoal’s planned Ashton South East Open Cut coal mine extension has finally bitten the dust. The project’s planning approval granted in 2015 expired earlier this month, bringing to an end the decades-long fight against the proposal. Crucial to the community’s victory was award-winning environmental activist […]
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