EDO responds to COVID-19
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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Analysis: Climate change and water governance in an era of high-tech irrigation
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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Call to declare koalas ‘endangered’ in NSW
Underpinned by legal advice from the Environmental Defenders Office, conservation groups have called for the NSW government to make an emergency endangered species declaration for...
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Equinor abandons plans to drill in Bight
Environmental Defenders Office joins our client The Wilderness Society (South Australia) in strongly welcoming news that Norwegian multinational Equinor has abandoned its plans to...
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The bushfire emergency: Our continuing legal response
The catastrophic bushfire emergency of the past six months has fundamentally changed the landscape that supports Australian wildlife. Huge swathes of habitat areas for Australian...
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Analysis: Koalas: new laws – old tricks
NSW planning policy for koalas falls short of the legal safeguards needed to protect the iconic animals and their habitats. By Cerin Loane, Senior Policy and Law Reform Solicitor,...
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Analysis: Koala habitat laws and mapping take effect in SEQ
On Friday 7 February 2020, the new laws and mapping intended to improve protections of koalas in south east Queensland (SEQ) commenced, introduced through the: Nature...
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Bylong community seeks to defend coal mine refusal decision
The Environmental Defenders Office, acting on behalf of the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance (BVPA), is seeking to join a Judicial Review into a decision to refuse...
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Adani Guilty of Criminal Offence Over Providing False or Misleading Documents
Adani today admitted to providing false or misleading documents to the Queensland Government over its land clearing activities, after an investigation sparked by evidence...
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Analysis: How *not* to do state climate law reform
Incredibly, while bushfires still burn in parts of the state, water is trucked hourly to towns like Gloucester and the coast battens down for extreme rain, we spent Thursday...
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