By Senior Solicitor Cerin Loane The NSW Government has recently updated rules to allow landholders to clear vegetation for bushfire protection, and for routine land management...
Blog NSW
The legal challenge to a Federal Government decision granting $21 million to Imperial Oil & Gas for gas exploration in...
Blog NT
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...
Blog Australia
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...
Blog Australia
The NSW Land and Environment Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Independent Planning Commission’s (IPC) approval of the Narrabri Gas Project. ...
Blog NSW
The long-running battle against the Bylong Valley Coal Mine is heading to the High Court after South Korean company KEPCO sought special leave to appeal the decision to refuse the...
Blog NSW
In a landmark collaborative report, EDO is urging the Queensland Government to adopt a modern framework of laws led by First Nations Lore and the latest scientific...
Blog QLD
By Head of Policy and Law Reform Rachel Walmsley and Scientific Director Megan Kessler With less than one month to go until the Conference of the Parties of the UN Climate...
Blog Australia
UPDATE March 2024 NSW water case discontinued after client secures government commitments Our client, the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), has this...
Blog Australia
In a victory for Tasmania’s pristine Lake Malbena, the state’s Supreme Court has today overturned a decision to grant a permit for a controversial helicopter-accessed tourism...
Blog TAS
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