Despite the acknowledged “immeasurable” cultural value of Significant Areas of Aboriginal cultural heritage within the footprint of the approved Shenhua Watermark open cut...
Blog NSW
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...
Blog Australia
The environmental lawyers of Environmental Defenders Office, Environmental Justice Australia and Earthjustice have made a joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights...
Blog Australia
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...
Blog NSW
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...
Blog NSW
“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...
Blog Australia
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...
Blog NSW
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...
Blog NT
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....
Blog Australia
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