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By Rachel Walmsley, Head of Policy & law Reform and Nicole Sommer, Director, Healthy Environment & Justice Program The latest State of The Environment Report is...
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Australia must support UN General Assembly resolution recognising the right to a healthy environment
By Melanie Montalban (Managing Lawyer – ACT) and Frances Bradshaw (Senior Solicitor), Healthy Environment and Justice Program, Canberra The UN General Assembly is meeting...
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EDO’s Matt Floro recognised as Australia’s Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year
Today we are celebrating the recognition of our Special Counsel Matt Floro as the 2022 Mahla Pearlman Australian Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year. As Special Counsel in our...
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Tiwi Elder seeks urgent injunction to stop Santos’ imminent Barossa gas offshore drilling plansÂ
The Tiwi Elder pursuing a Federal Court challenge to the approval, given by the offshore gas regulator NOPSEMA, of Santos’ Barossa drilling plan is seeking an injunction to stop...
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Bushfire survivors’ legal challenge to massive Narrabri coal mine extension
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) has launched a legal challenge to the NSW Independent Planning Commission’s (IPC) approval of the extension of Whitehaven...
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NSW follows suit and lists koalas as endangeredÂ
By Senior Solicitor Cerin Loane Following the Commonwealth’s decision earlier this year to upgrade the conservation status of koalas from vulnerable to endangered under...
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Civil society groups warn against police overreach in NSW climate defenders raid
Forty civil society organisations have expressed alarm at reports of police overreach in preemptive policing of protest, with NSW police conducting covert surveillance and a raid...
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Injunction sought against Woodside’s Scarborough Gas Project to protect Great Barrier Reef Â
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is heading to the Federal Court to seek an injunction against Woodside’s Scarborough Gas Project over climate harms to the Great Barrier...
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Video: Tasmanian devils could face a tragic end
The Tasmanian EPA has given a mining company the green light to truck iron ore through vital Tassie devil habitat at night – putting these nocturnal, endangered animals in...
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