Imagine you are Australia's Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. You take office with the aim of ending the extinction crisis, and now you find yourself allowing developments to proceed that will threaten habitat for endangered species. Last week, the Minister...
What are savannah woodlands and why do they need protection from bulldozers and big cotton? In February this year, EJA lawyers launched an important court case representing the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory to protect the world’s largest remaining...
An extraordinary victory that was decades in the making: the Victorian government has announced native forest logging will end by 1 January 2024. Our forests will keep standing. Our threatened wildlife are safer. We can visit today – and take our children tomorrow....
What do Victoria's draconian new laws mean for forest protestors? The Victorian government is introducing harsh new penalties and threats of prison time to deter concerned citizens from protesting against environmental destruction. The laws are part of an alarming...
ELLEN MAYBERYEJA SENIOR SPECIALIST LAWYER AND ECOSYSTEMS LEADWe don’t often have the opportunity to completely overhaul our national environment laws. As environmental lawyers, we know just how urgently it’s needed. Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has...
Over the 20-year existence of Australia’s federal environment laws, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, we have fought roll backs of the Act on numerous occasions, and advocated to improve this key piece of legislation. This month, EJA has...
On Monday 20 July, Professor Graeme Samuel released the Interim Report of the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC Act) - a 10-year review of our national environment laws. In the midst of a climate and extinction crisis, it’s...
EJA has joined with many other individuals and organisations in making the case for new and improved national environment protection laws, lodging our submission to the second 10 yearly review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the...
Environmental Justice Australia is one of the organisations leading the work of the Places You Love Alliance to advocate for new federal environmental laws. The Places You Love Alliance includes more than 50 organisations representing over 1.5 million Australians. EJA...
In 2014, the Places You Love Alliance decided to sponsor and support an independent panel of environmental law experts with the remit to chart how Australia’s national environmental laws needed to be reformed over a decade. The Australian Panel of Experts in...