Publications
Submission to the Greater Melbourne Urban Water and Supply Strategy
The Concerned Waterways Alliance (CWA) has made a submission to the Greater Melbourne Urban Water and Supply Strategy, Water Is Life. Read the submission here. The CWA is a network of community and environment groups from Gippsland to the Otways, including...
Water is life: Draft Roadmap on Aboriginal Access to Water
First Nationals control over and access to Country is fundamental to First Nations justice. EJA made a submission on the Victorian government's Draft Roadmap on Aboriginal access to Water. The draft roadmap, due to be released in late 2022, is the Victorian...
Tackling our water crisis: How sustainable is the government’s strategy for southern Victoria?
The Victorian Government is preparing a Sustainable Water Strategy (SWS) for the Central and Gippsland region of Victoria, south of the Great Dividing Range. Our latest report Tackling our water crisis – how sustainable is the government's strategy for southern...
Submission to NSW’s draft Clean Air Regulation 2022
Air pollution is a serious issue in NSW that causes hundreds of avoidable deaths and cases of childhood asthma every year. Yet NSW air pollution regulations are weak compared to many other countries. power stations here are missing modern pollution controls, and...
Open letter: Calling on the Victorian government to protect the community from toxic pollution
Everyone has the right to breathe safe and clean air – yet many Victorian communities are exposed to toxic air pollution every single day. Coal-burning power stations are one of the biggest sources of toxic pollution in the state but Victoria’s regulation of air...
Submission to the Victorian EPA on its Draft Guideline for Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
EJA made a submission on the Environment Protection Authority’s Draft guideline for managing greenhouse gas emissions. You can read our submission here. The guideline is significant because it is the first material to be published by the EPA on greenhouse gas...
Sustainable Strategy for Water
Read the Concerned Waterways Alliance response to the discussion draft of the Central and Gippsland Sustainable Water Strategy: first iteration
Using law and policy to protect the critical habitat of Victoria
Victoria has just ‘modernised’ its key biodiversity law, the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988. We think it is high time we took that opportunity to use critical habitat protections to best ecological effect. In this report, we reflect on the legal and policy...
Waste not, want not: Opportunities for the NSW Government to deliver for communities impacted by coal ash
Coal-burning power stations in NSW generate approximately 4.8–5.5 million tonnes of coal ash annually - a residual waste produced from coal-burning power that makes up one fifth of Australia's industrial waste stream. For the past five years, there has been a growing...
Joint statement on the Central and Gippsland Sustainable Water Strategy
An alliance of community and environment groups have made a public plea to the Victorian government to drastically change tack on water management across the state or risk leaving Victoria high and dry. The alliance has published a joint statement and written to...
Submission to the Independent Review of Victorian Wildlife Act 1975
This submission was prepared with Humane Society International. Right now, instead of protecting our native animals and their habitat, Victoria’s wildlife laws are enabling their decline. These laws are not strong enough or designed effectively to protect our...
Submission in response to scoping of environmental assessment for ‘offset’ works on the Murray River floodplain
This submission was prepared jointly between EJA, the EDO and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. It’s a technical one, but important! The submission is in response to proposals for infrastructure works on certain sections of the Murray River floodplain on...