
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 37 Pt 3
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “The Murray-Darling Basin in Court: Administering Water Policy in the Eastern States of Australia – Administrative and Other Challenges” – Justice Nicola Pain and Georgia Pick; “Landowners’ Appeal of Seawalls Refusal Unsuccessful” – John R Corkill; “Higher and Distinctive Standards for Urban River Protection? Special Purpose “River Laws” and Land-use Planning” – Bruce Lindsay; “Take Care or Beware: Victoria’s New Environmental Protection Regime” – Alice Maxwell; “Serial Environmental Offenders: Putting Penalties into Practice” – Kierra Parker; “Planning vs Planning Law: Reconciling Planning Policy and Case Law in the Victorian Planning System” – Stephen Rowley; and “Climate Change Risk and the Urban Landscape” – Sophie Tepper.
Finding a Sustainable Solution for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
Dr Ted Christie outlines an alternative solution to dealing with water rights and protecting the Murray-Darling Basin river system.
The comments are based on an article published in The Queensland Lawyer in June 2011.
Journals Excerpt: The Water Act and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
By Paul Kildea and George Williams* This comment was published in the Public Law Review at (2011) 22 PLR 9. The Water Act 2007 (Cth) is the most extensive Commonwealth intervention into water resource management in Australia since Federation. The Act brought the Murray-Darling Basin1 under Commonwealth management in order to remedy a longstanding over-allocation ...more