Introduction Land use planning and development in the Northern Territory is regulated by: The Northern Territory Planning Act and Planning Regulations. The Northern Territory Planning Scheme. Development permits and exceptional development permits. The Planning Act and Planning Regulations are the laws which regulate how land in the Northern Territory can be developed and used. The Northern Territory Planning Scheme is a statutory document that divides land in […]
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The Environmental Defenders Office provides expert legal advice and runs groundbreaking cases to protect our climate, communities, and iconic plants and animals. […]
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Bushfire survivors are taking legal action to force the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority to address climate change. EDO is representing a group of people from around the state, who have experienced first-hand the devastation caused by major bushfires – infernos made more likely and more intense by climate change. After the worst bushfire […]
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EDO’s Special Counsel Brendan Dobbie has been honoured as 2021 Lawyer of the Year for his work in Climate Change Law in Sydney, in the Best Lawyers in Australia guide. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and community is awarded this accolade. Several other EDO lawyers have also been recognised amongst the nation’s […]
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Water resources in the Northern Territory are managed under the Water Act and Water Regulations by: the Minister for Land Resource Management establishing water control districts[1] controlling which uses are able to take water in a water control district (these are the beneficial uses)[2] having water allocation plans (also called a WAP) that allocate water to beneficial uses[3] requiring people […]
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Water resource laws in the Northern Territory: control who can use water resources control how water resources are allocated and managed may require people who extract surface or groundwater or do works which affect a waterway to hold a licence require people discharging waste into water to have a licence impose criminal offences for polluting […]
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This Fact Sheet is about protection of Indigenous heritage that is linked to land in the Northern Territory. Indigenous heritage is protected under Northern Territory laws and under national laws. Northern Territory laws There are two Northern Territory laws that can protect Indigenous heritage. These are: the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act the Heritage Act 2011 […]
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Protecting Native Animals, Plants, Threatened Species & Ecological Communities We have updated and combined our fact sheets on native plants and animals and threatened species following the introduction of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. The new fact sheet outlines the legal protections for native and threatened species in NSW. This fact sheet will be useful […]
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A new legal challenge has been launched today against the operator of Whitehaven’s Maules Creek mine for failing to secure thousands of hectares of biodiversity offsets for the controversial coal mine near Narrabri in central north NSW. The mine gained federal approval in 2013 on the condition that the company secure 5,532 hectares of biodiversity […]
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Late last Friday, while everyone was transfixed by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis, a confidential review of how the NSW native vegetation laws are tracking was quietly and reluctantly released. The news is not good. By Rachel Walmsley, Director of Policy and Law Reform, Sydney It was clear to EDO from the moment the old native […]
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