By Head of Policy and Law Reform Rachel Walmsley In the dying hours of the NSW parliamentary session on Thursday 19th November the Government attempted to pass a bill through the Upper House to reduce protections for koala habitat under land clearing laws – the Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2020. The Bill was purportedly […]
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Housing development threat to Butterfly Cave Aboriginal Women’s site During NAIDOC Week, a group of Aboriginal women are appealing to the Federal Environment Minister to step in and enforce legal protections on the ancient Butterfly Cave site at Lake Macquarie, NSW, which is under threat from a housing development. The Butterfly Cave – a sacred […]
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NAIDOC Week 2020: An important year for reflection and advocacy on cultural heritage laws By Senior Solicitor Lauren Butterly This NAIDOC week, with its theme of ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ is an important time to reflect on cultural heritage laws in Australia, particularly in the wake of the devastating destruction of Juukan Gorge in […]
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) has made a number of submissions to NOPSEMA as part of their process of clarifying and operationalising regulatory requirements. Previous EDO submissions relating to NOPSEMA responsibilities are available at: www.edo.org.au/publication/submissions-involving-nopsema. […]
The peoples of Wagina in Solomon Islands have won a historic battle against a proposed bauxite mine development, which would have taken up 60% of their island home and created unacceptable and irreversible environmental impacts, threatening around 2000 residents who rely on the sea and land for their livelihood. After over a year of deliberation, […]
EDO has achieved so much in our first year as the largest environmental legal centre in the Australia-Pacific. None of this would have been possible without people like you Download a copy of our Impact Report 2019-20 to find out what we have achieved together. […]
By Senior Solicitor Emily Long Our Black Summer of bushfires fundamentally changed the landscape of NSW. 5.4m hectares of land burned in the state. 890,000ha of that was in State Forests – where native forest logging occurs. Koalas – already listed as vulnerable in NSW – were lost in their thousands. Despite this, logging of […]
Following the stand-off between the NSW Nationals and NSW Liberal party over koala protections in September (see our analysis below), the Coalition Government is now determined to make changes to land clearing laws and koala protection policies as they apply to farmers – removing important protections for koala habitat and further facilitating excessive and inappropriate land […]
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Real action on climate needs a Climate Act to legislate emissions reductions targets, along with monitoring and reporting and a new Climate Authority to oversee whole-of-government action. The Environmental Defenders Office has joined forces with the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Queensland Conservation Council to release a new report outlining the many benefits that can […]
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