Interim EPBC Act Report – our preliminary response
The hotly anticipated Interim Report of the Independent Review of the EPBC Act was released by Professor Graeme Samuel today. EDO lawyers are currently analysing the detailed...
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Australia’s climate inaction is a human rights violation – UN submission
The environmental lawyers of Environmental Defenders Office, Environmental Justice Australia and Earthjustice have made a joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights...
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Analysis: Beyond ‘shut-up water’, Getting water sharing plans to work for rivers and people
By Dr Emma Carmody, EDO Special Counsel and water law expert It’s 2018 and I’m standing in the far west of NSW on the banks of the Darling River, or Barka, as it is known to...
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NRAR prosecutes for alleged unlawful water take at Maules Creek mine
The Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR), the NSW independent water regulator, has commenced prosecution in the Land and Environment Court against Whitehaven Coal over two...
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Analysis: Koalas extinct in NSW by 2050 unless government acts now
“Without urgent government intervention to protect habitat and address all other threats, the koala will become extinct in New South Wales before 2050.” NSW parliamentary...
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Analysis: NSW Water Sharing Plans set to fail farmers, communities and the environment
The NSW Government is poised to sign off on plans for the Murray-Darling that will lock in inadequate volumes of environmental water for the next decade. Legal instruments...
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Tighter protections secured for endangered loggerhead turtles
Improved conditions to protect endangered marine turtles from a development on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast have been secured through a recent court appeal. EDO assisted the...
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A new era for environmental law in the Northern Territory
For almost 40 years, the principal Northern Territory law aimed at protecting the environment from the impacts of major development has been the Environmental Assessment Act 1982...
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Remember these things lost by protecting what remains
By Joe Morrison, EDO Board, and David Morris, CEO The destruction of one of the Juukan caves in Western Australia’s Pilbara region by Rio Tinto is shocking, but not surprising....
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First day in court in historic challenge to Clive Palmer’s Galilee Coal Project
Young Queenslanders and rural landholders, represented by the EDO, have appeared in Queensland’s Land Court for the first time in their landmark legal case against Clive...
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