One of the biggest weeks in our history!
This week has been one of the biggest in EJA’s history – and a powerful reminder of why our small but mighty public interest environmental legal centre exists.
On Monday, we released our new investigative report, Following the money: The unfinished transition away from native forest logging and ABC’s Four Corners aired its episode Timber Turmoil.
On Tuesday, we stood in Parliament House alongside ten remarkable Australians to launch the Hard Truths case – a globally significant human right case before the United Nations over Australian’s coal and gas exports.
That same day, we secured an important win requiring the Environment Minister to reconsider Woodside’s Browse gas project.
Yesterday, we supported Wadi Wadi man, Vince Kirby, launch a legal action challenging the Victorian government’s approval of a floodplain engineering project on the Murray River.
Later today, we’ll receive judgment on our clients’ Northern Territory Beetaloo Basin fracking case.
And in two weeks, we'll be back in court challenging Woodside's North West Shelf extension.
Different cases, different communities. One purpose: using the law to protect people, nature, and our climate.
These cases don't begin when filed in court.
They begin months – and often years – earlier, working alongside communities, gathering evidence, testing legal arguments and preparing to challenge decisions that many people assume can't be challenged.
This is the work your support makes possible.
For 30 years, generous supporters like you have made EJA into an independent, public interest legal organisation with the expertise to take on powerful interests, stand beside communities and purse the cases others can’t or won’t.
We’re incredibly proud of the communities who choose to stand up for environmental justice, and humbled that our lawyers get to stand beside them.
Thanks to EJA donors, we can plan complex legal interventions and challenge some of Australia’s most powerful interests with confidence.
The environmental decisions made today will shape the Australia we leave to those who follow.
If you believe Australia needs fearless, bold and independent environmental lawyers prepared to take on those decisions, please make your EOFY donation today.
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