A legal application by the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance (BVPA), represented by Environmental Defenders Office, to become a full party in the court case to defend the planning...
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Bushfire survivors are taking legal action to force the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority to address climate change. EDO is representing a group of people from...
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EDO’s Special Counsel Brendan Dobbie has been honoured as 2021 Lawyer of the Year for his work in Climate Change Law in Sydney, in the Best Lawyers in Australia guide. Only a...
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By Ruby Hamilton and Sarah Flynne, Solicitors, EDO Perth The new version of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority’s Environmental Factor Guideline for...
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On 19 March 2020, the NSW Land and Environment Court delivered judgment in WaterNSW’s prosecution of two irrigators in the northern Murray-Darling Basin. The Court found that...
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A new legal challenge has been launched today against the operator of Whitehaven’s Maules Creek mine for failing to secure thousands of hectares of biodiversity offsets for the...
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Late last Friday, while everyone was transfixed by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis, a confidential review of how the NSW native vegetation laws are tracking was quietly and...
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EDO’s Papua New Guinean (PNG) legal-advocacy partner CELCOR (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights) and their client Project Sepik have this week called for the...
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A message from our CEO David Morris about the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve rapidly and our response is too. I wanted to write now and let you...
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Improving adaptation, sustainability, transparency and public trust On 19 February this year, Dr Emma Carmody, EDO’s Special Counsel and water law expert, gave this opening...
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