Legal Administrator – Tasmania

Location: Hobart CBD Term: ongoing Part-time (0.6 – 0.8 FTE), which comes to 22.5 – 30 hours per week Remuneration: SCHADS Level 4: FTE $78-84k + 10.5% super + 17.5% Annual Leave Loading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are particularly encouraged to apply Job title: Legal Administrator, TAS Healthy Environment and Justice Reporting to: […]

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Paralegal/Graduate – Criminal Law

Location: Sydney. In exceptional circumstances, interstate applications will be considered.  Term: This position is a 12-month fixed term contract (possible extension based on funding).  Part-time: 3 days per week (22.5 hours)  Remuneration: SCHADS Level 2: FTE $60-65,750 + 10.5% super + 17.5% Annual Leave Loading  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are particularly encouraged to apply  Download the position description: The organisation Environmental Defenders […]

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First Nations Communications Specialist

Location: Australia-wide Mandatory Requirements: This is an Identified Position – It is an occupational requirement that this position be filled by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. Term: 12 months with possible extension Full-time: 37.5 hours (Part time at 0.8 FTE will be considered) Remuneration: SCHADS Level 4: FTE $78- $84k+ 10.5% super + 17.5% […]

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NSW follows suit and lists koalas as endangered 

By Senior Solicitor Cerin Loane  Following the Commonwealth’s decision earlier this year to upgrade the conservation status of koalas from vulnerable to endangered under national law, New South Wales has followed suit, uplisting the koala from vulnerable to endangered under the State’s Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. We now consider what implications this may have for the […]

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Civil society groups warn against police overreach in NSW climate defenders raid

Forty civil society organisations have expressed alarm at reports of police overreach in preemptive policing of protest, with NSW police conducting covert surveillance and a raid on climate activists north of Sydney on Sunday (June 19). Police had been covertly surveilling a private property where individuals linked to Blockade Australia were camped. Blockade Australia has […]

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EDO Submission in response to Draft Aquaculture Standards for Tasmania

EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on Draft Aquaculture Standards for Tasmania. In this submission, we respond to This submission responds to the Draft Environmental Standard for Marine Finfish Farms and to the Draft Standardised Marine Farming Management Controls (as they relate to finfish farming). EDO’s submission also responds to broader concerns around the regulation […]

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EDO Submission on the ACT’s Planning Bill 2022

EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on the ACT’s proposed Planning Bill 2022. The Bill, which is intended to replace the Planning and Development Act 2007 (ACT), now in force for 15 years, is the centrepiece for how development will be planned, decided and regulated in the ACT in the future. Development impacts the environment […]

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Injunction sought against Woodside’s Scarborough Gas Project to protect Great Barrier Reef  

Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is heading to the Federal Court to seek an injunction against Woodside’s Scarborough Gas Project over climate harms to the Great Barrier Reef.  On behalf of our client, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), EDO will argue that the $16bn fossil fuel project should not be allowed to commence unless it is […]

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Head of Marketing and Media

We are looking for a talented media and marketing professional with demonstrated project management skills and high emotional intelligence to lead a team of talented marketeers. Location: Australia wide Term: Permanent Full-time (0.8 FTE will be considered for the right applicant) Remuneration: SCHADS Level 8: $110-116k + 10% super + 17.5% Annual Leave Loading Aboriginal […]

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