“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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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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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...
Blog QLD
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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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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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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EDO strongly supports legislation introduced by the Queensland Government on 18 June 2020 to provide for a new independent Rehabilitation Commissioner to oversee improvements and...
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The Environmental Defenders Office stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Our vision is a world where nature thrives. The achievement of this vision cannot...
Blog Australia
Kirstiana Ward, Managing Lawyer of the Cairns EDO office, considers the plight of the endangered Spectacled Flying Foxes, and the ways that national and state environmental laws...
Blog QLD
Our Sydney office, like most offices around the country, has been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. When – in the future – we return to it, a desk in the corner...
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