This factsheet examines Western Australia’s planning laws – explaining what the planning laws are, who administers those laws, as well as outlining the broader framework of these laws encompassing policies and other statutory instruments which impact planning decisions in Western Australia. […]
Almost exactly one year since the case was launched, our judicial review over Woodside’s huge Scarborough gas project is heading to court in Perth. The project is located on the Burrup Peninsula (Murujuga). An area rich with unique wildlife and cultural history, it is currently on the tentative World-Heritage list. On behalf of the Conservation […]
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The West Australian parliament has passed new cultural heritage legislation, just days after a United Nations committee raised concerns about the new laws. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), issued a response to a request by a group of prominent Western Australian First Nations people – Slim Parker, Kado Muir, Dr Anne Poelina, […]
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Looking for more resources? See Other Useful Contacts to get in touch with the Law Society in your state/territory for private legal advice or make a complaint to the Ombudsman in your state/territory. […]
EDO welcomes the Final Report into the Destruction of Indigenous Heritage Sites at Juukan Gorge (the Report). The Report is a landmark publication for two reasons: it provides an important, shocking and distressing, account of the breadth and depth of cultural heritage destruction across Australia; and, in response, it contains a strong call to action […]
By Melanie Montalban, Managing Lawyer – ACT and Claudia Hodge, EDO volunteer and Youth-Chair of the Environment and Human Rights Subcommittee, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights * In a landmark decision on 8 October 2021, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) recognised the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment by adopting […]
The Environmental Defenders Office has assisted a group of First Nations people to make a formal request for a United Nations Committee to review Western Australia’s draft proposed cultural heritage bill, arguing the bill is incompatible with Australia’s international obligations on racial discrimination. Slim Parker, Kado Muir, Dr Anne Poelina, Clayton Lewis and Dr Hannah McGlade have made a request to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the Committee) to review the Western Australian draft Aboriginal […]
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The Environmental Defenders Office, acting on behalf of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), has filed a Federal Court case against gas giant Santos over its claims natural gas is “clean fuel” and that it has a credible pathway to net zero emissions by 2040. ACCR will argue the claims – contained in the […]
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The Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia (EPA WA) sought feedback on its revised EIA Procedures Suite to implement the changes made by the Environmental Protection Amendment Act 2020. […]
New legal analysis by EDO lawyers raises serious questions about gas giant Woodside Petroleum Ltd’s climate-related risk disclosure. The latest report from our new corporate and commercial law team, commissioned by the Conservation Council of Western Australia, suggests Woodside is exposed to a number of climate-related risks that have not been specifically and comprehensively disclosed […]
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