By Brendan Dobbie, Sean Ryan, Rachel Walmsley As 2020 draws to a close with heatwaves and the bushfire season upon us once more, it is timely to reflect on the climate law reform...
Blog Australia
The NSW Government has released draft regulations on floodplain harvesting that will amend the Water Management Regulation 2018 (NSW). This includes...
Blog NSW
Walgett’s Dharriwaa Elders Group, Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations and the Environmental Defenders Office collaborated to make a joint submission responding to a...
Blog Australia
By Dr Lauren Butterly This week, the Interim Report of the Inquiry into the destruction of 46,000 year old caves at the Juukan Gorge was released. The Interim Report made strong...
Blog WA
At the start of this month, our EDO Freshwater team were pleased to see the NSW Government roll out the first stage of its non-urban water metering framework. The new metering...
Blog Australia
In a recent submission on floodplain harvesting, the EDO and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists argued that “conferring permanent property rights to irrigators is a...
Blog Australia
In a huge win for marine life and the community, Norwegian company Subsea 7 has abandoned its controversial plans to construct 10km-long pipelines and drag them through Ningaloo...
Blog WA
Following the defeat of the Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2020 in the NSW Upper House in November (see our update here), the NSW Government has now taken steps to...
Blog NSW
In our new report, Empowering the EPA to prevent climate pollution, EDO examines how the NSW EPA can put in place mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions using its existing...
Blog NSW
The Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has refused approval for an application to clear approximately 2,000 hectares of native vegetation at Kingvale Station in far north...
Blog QLD
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