Clients and partners
Over the past thirty years, we've represented and partnered with hundreds of public-interest and environmental justice clients.
We stand alongside our clients at the frontlines of environmental harm and climate damage, and fight together for justice and a healthy world for all.
Meet some of our clients and partners:
The Environment Council of Central Queensland (ECoCeQ)
This volunteer-run community group acts as a voice for the environment in the region. Surround by reefs, rainforest, koalas, and a staggering number of coal mines, ECoCeQ formed out of rapidly growing concern for the health and future of the local environment and our climate.
Environmental Justice Australia represents ECoCeQ in their Federal Court climate cases to protect our living wonders from climate harm.
"We’re doing this because we’re so tired of the sound bites. So tired of photos of ministers posing with koalas, saying all the right things but failing to act."
— Christine Carlisle, ECoCeQ President
Friends of Leadbeater's Possum
Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum is a group of volunteers who raise awareness of the plight of wollert (Leadbeater's Possums) and advocate their needs for survival in the wild.
When citizen scientists documented sightings of wollert and warnda (Greater Glinders) in more than 100 of VicForests’ logging coupes in the Central Highlands forests, Friends of Leadbeater's Possum knew it was time to act.
Environmental Justice Australia represented Friends of Leadbeater's Possum in three-year David and Goliath court battle to protect threatened wildlife from logging.
"It has been a privilege to work with EJA on our overwhelmingly successful case against VicForests. The EJA legal team has lead us confidently through a very complex court process and ensured we have access to the best possible advice and representation. We are grateful to EJA for the opportunity to hold a powerful government logging corporation to account."
— Steve Meacher, Friends of Leadbeater's Possum
Mine-free Glenaladale
This group of farmers, residents and concerned community members led a strong campaign to stop a 1,675-hectare open-cut mine, the Fingerboards mineral sands / rare earths mine, in Glenaladale Gippsland.
Environmental Justice Australia represented Mine-free Glenaladale at public hearings to protect the community from the harm of a mineral sands mine in Gippsland.
"Our community is deeply grateful for the legal guidance, advocacy and representation and support provided by EJA. It ensured our community was able to participate as a respected party, exposing important matters that would otherwise have escaped attention."
— Mine-Free Glenaladale Inc.
Partners
We are proudly powered by the generosity of committed, visionary individuals and collectives who believe in our work using the law to create a radically better world.
Thanks to all our donors, supporters, volunteers and communities – your unyielding generosity is the backbone of our independence and our ability to challenge the overarching systems driving destruction. We are proud to be funded by the community, for the community.
Below we recognise those who contributed $10,000 or more this year and acknowledge the many others who choose to remain anonymous.
Albert & Barbara Tucker
Foundation
Australian Ethical Foundation
B B & A Miller Foundation
Bluesand Foundation
Bob and Bronwyn Baird
Katherine Barraclough and
Ashu Jhamb
Ethinvest Foundation
Peter George and
Catherine Murphy
Graeme Wood Foundation
Height Morris Foundation
Philip and Jenny Henty
Highgate Foundation,
a sub-fund of Australian Communities Foundation
Isaacson Davis Foundation
Kaplan-Dascalu Regenerative
Fund, a sub-fund of Australian
Communities Foundation
Koshland Innovation Extension
Fund, a sub-fund of Australian
Communities Foundation
Lord Mayor’s Charitable
Foundation through the
Eldon & Anne Foote Trust
Lord Mayor’s Charitable
Foundation
Macdoch Foundation
Nature Impact Collective
Naylor Stewart Foundation
Patagonia
PMF Foundation
Pool of Dreams Foundation
Reichstein Foundation
Sally Romanes
Smith & Sheppard Fund,
a sub-fund of Australian
Communities Foundation
Southcoast Foundation
Spinifex
The Aranday Foundation
The Bowden Marstan Foundation
The Capricorn Foundation
The Coalition (Solutions)
The Fox Family
The Myer Foundation
TREE – The Regenerative
Empowering Earth Fund
Vermilion Foundation
Victoria Legal Aid
Victorian Legal Services Board
Grant Program
Pro bono and in-kind support
A huge thank you to the barristers and legal partners who have offered our clients their services pro bono or at generous reduced rates. Adding the weight of your expertise to our cases has been invaluable and we couldn’t do it without you.
Throughout the year we were also supported by law students and recent graduates who volunteered and interned across our legal teams. Thank you to all these volunteers who made an invaluable contribution to our work.
Angel Aleksov
Glyn Ayres
Elizabeth Bennett SC
Ashleigh Best
Jamie Blaker
Natalie Blok
Tomo Boston KC
Susan Brennan SC
Roshan Chaile
Adam Chernok
Luke Chircop
Patrick Coleridge
Mark Costello KC
DLA Piper
Hannah Douglas
Emma Dunlop
Rachel Ellyard
Henry El-Page
Kathleen Foley SC
Robert Forrester
Tim Goodwin
Frances Gordon K
Guthrie Legal
Sebastian Hartford-Davis
Jim Hartley
Laura Hilly
Hive Legal
Michael Hodge KC
Tara Hooper
Noel Hutley SC
James Hutton SC
King & Wood Mallesons
Richard Knowles KC
Jonathan Korman
Landers & Rogers
Clare Langford
Legal Ready
Maddocks
Jack Maxwell
Daniel McCredden
Greg McIntyre SC
Jennifer Mee
Rowan Minson
Colette Mintz
Sophie Molyneaux
Maya Narayan
Emrys Nekvapil SC
Minh-Quan Nguyen
Norton Rose Fulbright
Michael O’Donnell
Suganya Pathan
Emily Porter SC
Shawn Rajanayagam
Georgina Rhodes
Dr Laura Schuijers
Angus Scott KC
Sky Discovery
Diana Tang
Julia Wang
Geoffrey Watson SC
Rupert Watters
Dr Kylie Weston Scheuber
Wotton + Kearney
David Yarrow
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