What are you doing for your summer holidays? Relaxing, surfing, reading trashy novels? Or perhaps writing a submission to the 10-year review of our national environment law –...
Blog Australia
Today we launch the Environmental Defenders Office, Australia’s new national, not-for- profit legal watchdog for the environment. The Environmental Defenders Office will see...
Blog Australia
Environmental Defenders Office has welcomed the commencement of a hearing in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court concerning the alleged unauthorised expansion of a...
Blog NSW
The Environmental Defenders Office has been engaged by group of New South Wales residents to investigate if the state government has a duty to repair and protect their beach from...
Blog NSW
In a proposal that examines what role the public has in decisions about development of Tasmania’s wild places, EDO has successfully represented clients in a number of...
Blog TAS
This case note by Matt Floro, EDO Solicitor, and Jasper Brown, Legal Administrator, Sydney, was originally published in the Australian Environment Review, Vol 34, No 6 2019....
Blog NSW
31 October 2019: Just as heatwaves descend on Sydney and the state is gripped by one of the worst droughts on record, last week the NSW Planning Minister introduced a bill into...
Blog NSW
As the rest of the world rapidly phases out fossil fuels, we should be urgently planning for a just transition for coal and gas communities and a safe climate for our children. ...
Blog NSW
The New South Wales Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) has released preliminary findings alleging unlawful water capture is occurring at the Maules Creek Mine, a massive...
Blog NSW
In September 2019, EDO secured a win in the Federal Court to stop the Queensland Government culling sharks in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Despite media hyperbole playing...
Blog QLD
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EDO recognises the traditional owners and custodians of the land, seas and rivers of Australia. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander elders past and present, and aspire to learn from traditional knowledge and customs so that, together, we can protect our environment and cultural heritage through law.
