by Tessa Fluence | Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
It has been a huge few weeks for forests in Victoria. The Supreme Court cases Three brave community groups won landmark cases in the Supreme Court against the government’s logging agency. In two separate cases, the Court ruled that VicForests failed to find and...
by Tessa Fluence | Nov 11, 2022 | Forests, Nature
The Supreme Court of Victoria has handed down two landmark judgments, both finding state-owned logging agency VicForests has logged illegally. In a win for forests and community, both judgments will require VicForests to survey for and protect threatened species. In...
by Tessa Fluence | Nov 5, 2022 | Climate, Safe climate future
Have you heard the news? Minister Plibersek has just announced she has accepted our client’s game changing climate legal intervention as valid, and will reconsider 18 coal and gas proposals currently awaiting federal approval. This is huge! Back in July, on...
by Tessa Fluence | Aug 11, 2022 | Coal pollution, Communities
The future health of Gippsland Lakes, an internationally recognised Ramsar wetland, lies firmly in the hands of the Victorian and Commonwealth governments, writes senior EJA lawyer Ellen Maybery. As a Party to the Ramsar Convention, Australia has a responsibility to...
by Tessa Fluence | Jul 11, 2022 | Coal pollution, Communities
On behalf of our client, the courageous Environment Council of Central Queensland, we’ve just commenced a landmark legal intervention. Our client has just asked Australia’s new Environment Minister to reconsider nearly all new coal and gas proposals currently awaiting...
