by Bruce Lindsay | Sep 30, 2021 | Cultural flows, First Nations, Murray
For tens of thousands of years, First Nations people have cared for Country and depended on healthy and flowing rivers – rivers that lived and breathed according to natural cycles. Colonisation and decades of mismanagement and overextraction have left Australia’s...
by Bruce Lindsay | Mar 12, 2021 | Biodiversity, Nature, Victorian biodiversity laws
On Thursday 12 March, Senior EJA Lawyer Bruce Lindsay gave evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline. The Committee heard from scientists, experts and communities of the deteriorating state of Victoria’s ecosystems. Read Bruce’s opening statement...
by Bruce Lindsay | Mar 31, 2020 | Rivers and waterways
In late 2019, EJA represented the Chirnside Parks Residents Action Group in a two-week hearing addressing a proposal on Brushy Creek in the Shire of Yarra Ranges. The proposal was for nearly 50 residential blocks on land including both the escarpment of Brushy Creek...
by Bruce Lindsay | May 14, 2019 | Rivers and waterways
Out on Stony Creek in inner-western Melbourne the best endeavours of local community, councils and public agencies led to the protection of a small corridor of public land and waterway, considerable restoration works and no shortage of goodwill. A part of nature was...
by Bruce Lindsay | Aug 21, 2017 | Rivers and waterways, Yarra River
The new Yarra River Bill marries an innovative ‘legal rights for nature’ approach with conventional land use planning. Following two-and-a-half years of work by EJA and the Yarra Riverkeeper Association – and lots of community consultation – the landmark Yarra River...
