Australian Journal of Administrative Law update: Vol 32 Pt 3
By journalalerts on November 18, 2025
Tag: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth)
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 41 Pt 1
By journalalerts on June 18, 2025
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: Birrarung (Yarra River) Cooks River Corey Walker Deborah Hollingworth Dr Gerry Bates Eliza Saville Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) Environment Protection Authority Victoria Environmental Restorative Justice EPBC Act Reform Process Felicity Tepper First Nations First Nations Australians Haydee de Guzman James EM Watson Justine Bell-James Martine Maron Miranda Forsyth Phillipa C McCormack Regulatory Environment Protection Rights of Nature movement River Governance Traditional Owner Knowledge Victoria’s Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017 (Vic) water governance
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 40 Pt 5
By journalalerts on May 27, 2025
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: “Glasgow Statement” Australian Consumer Law (ACL) Brian J Preston carbon emissions clean energy transition climate litigation concept of justiciability in climate change litigation in three areas of the law cotton Dr Gerry Bates effects of anthropogenic climate change Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) environmental law EPBC Act export credit agencies (ECAs) Export Finance Australia fossil fuel Great Barrier Reef greenhouse gases greenwashing Imogen Picker Jessica Si Jia Xia Shi-Mei Ewing sustainability Sweden
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 40 Pt 4
By journalalerts on January 10, 2025
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: “shipping sunshine” Adrian Hizo Application of Vicarious Liability Arden Yeh Dr Gerry Bates Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) Environmental Crimes EPBC Act Hydrogen Hubs of Gladstone and Townsville Hydrogen Production Jacqui Robertson Minister for the Environment v Sharma Minister’s exercise of decision-making power Ministerial Negligence Queensland Solar energy Speech the application of the doctrine to environmental crimes the doctrine of vicarious liability in the context of tort law The Hon John Basten The law of negligence The Public Interest Tort Law Urgenda Foundation v State of Netherlands Water Planning Water Planning for Hydrogen Production in Queensland Wednesbury Wednesbury unreasonableness
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 39 Pt 3
By journalalerts on July 13, 2023
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v Republic of Kenya Australia biodiversity protection Canada China Dr Gerry Bates Dr Rhett Martin Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) Environmental Movement in China forced eviction of the Indigenous Ogiek people from their ancestral lands Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) Human Rights and the Environment Indigenous Rights in Freshwater Indigenous water rights Legal Framework for Biodiversity Conservation in Australia and New Zealand Maˉori laws and governance rights Mostafa Mahmud Naser New Zealand Nicky Jones Ogiek Case Property Rights in Queensland Qi Gao Resource Management Act 1991 (NZ) Rose Neil-Smith Sarah Down Sharon Mascher Simon Young Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 39 Pt 2
By journalalerts on July 4, 2023
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria 2011 floods in Queensland 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires in NSW A critique of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) Analysis of the different approaches to plastic regulation across various jurisdictions in Australia Australia’s regulatory approach to plastic pollution Behavioural approach to environmental conservation in Australian agriculture Change in land-use significant impact on biodiversity Confusion and regulatory overlap (or underlap) that contradicts the goal of minimising the negative environmental effects of plastic Disaster planning and response Dr Gerry Bates Earth jurisprudence Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) Felicity Deane Floodplain harvesting (FPH) Gerry Nagtzaam Increased involvement of local Māori in river management Increasing calls for the regulation of land holders Indigenous peoples and local communities Joseph Miller Kenneth Pennington Kenny Ng Murray-Darling Basin negative environmental effects associated with plastic production and use non-economic losses in policy-making decision-making and disaster response NSW’s floodplain harvesting policy principle of “wise use” Rhett Martin rights of natural entities Role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in wetlands management in international law and Australian practice Simon Marsden Steve Kourabas The balance between western scientific knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge in wetlands management The river as a separate legal person the values that indigenous peoples can bring to all aspects of wise use traditional techniques of wise use Trent Candy Water Act 1912 (NSW) Wetlands management in international law and Australian practice Whanganui River in New Zealand Youth Climate Courts: How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet by Thomas A Kerns
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 38 Pt 2
By journalalerts on June 7, 2021
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: Alannah Milton Alex Gardner articles authorised emission child climate change litigants Child Rights and Climate Change: Litigative Avenues for Australian Children climate change conservative mass private electric vehicle uptake decarbonising passenger transport electric ridesharing and carsharing electric vehicle policies electric vehicles life-cycle emissions Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) environmental decision-making approaches Environmental Protection Amendment Act 2020 (WA) EPLJ globally orchestrated climate change protest greater Indigenous influence in environmental decision-making processes Greta Thunberg Helena Nguyen Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) incorporating human and child rights-based arguments indigenous rights Kenny Ng Licensing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Western Australia Matthew Groves Olivia De Koning Optional Protocol on a Communications Procedure to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Paris Agreement pollution and environmental harm progressive shared and intermodal electric mobility Pt V of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA) regulating greenhouse gas emissions Returning the Environment to Their Custodians: Strengthening Indigenous Influence in Environmental Decision-making securing licence defence Standing Outside: An Environment of Challenge and Withheld Cures standing principles under the general law Stefan Prelevic sustainable transport policy and scholarship transformed mobility system Visions of Electrification and Potential for Decarbonisation: The Absence of Ridesharing and Carsharing in Australia's Electric Vehicle Policy Walton v Scottish Ministers Youth Verdict v Waratah Coal
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 37 Pt 2
By journalalerts on April 3, 2020
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: "If We Don’t Mine Coal Someone Else Will" 2019–2020 Bushfires A Case Study of Incentive Regulation in Electricity Transmission Networks for the Uptake of Renewable Energy: Build It and They Will Come Administrative Litigation Law (ALL) adverse impacts of climate change articles assessment of environmental and economic impacts of mining projects Australian class action jurisprudence bioregional planning Briana Collins changing market conditions Civil Procedure Law (CPL) claims by foreign claimants against Australian-domiciled entities claims for breach of statutory environmental duties climate change based claims Climate-induced Displacement: Protection under the Current International Legal Frameworks coal mine Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 Corey Byrne critical habitat Debunking the "Market Substitution Assumption" in Queensland Climate Change Litigation Dr Gerry Bates ecological civilisation Editorial EIA Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) Environmental Class Actions in Australia: A Coming Storm? environmental public-interest litigation EPBC Act EPLJ Essay Topic: A New Era for a Higher Level of Public Participation in the Administration of Environmental Law and Justice in the People’s Republic of China foreign pollution impacts of a development project on the environment economy and society Ishrat Jahan James A Fitzsimons Justine Bell-James Maya Suzuki moral and ethical issues MSA Muddied Waters: Revealing Methodological Confusion in Australia's Environmental Impact Assessment Process native insect species new types of claims offshore wind Paris Agreement Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Reconsidering the Species-specific Approach: Insects and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act renewable energy generation Simon Anderson solar PV Sophie Lloyd Special Issue species-specific protections standard of proof and precautionary principle sustainable development of PRC threatened species Urgent Need to Use and Reform Critical Habitat Listing in Australian Legislation Why Australia (Desperately) Needs a New National Sustainability Strategy Xu (John) Zhang
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 36 Pt 4
By journalalerts on August 22, 2019
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: Alberta's Orphan Fund Levy assurance mechanisms in conjunction with levy schemes Catherine Pickering Charles Lawson Conference of Parties conservation and sustainable development of genetic resources Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) decisions concerning e-waste and its management Dr Garry Middle Dr Justin Dabner Dr Laura Stocker Edward Andre Edward Dymond Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) EPLJ Expert Working Group Jenna Wraith Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) Krishna Prasad Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism levy schemes in polluter pays principle low-cost emissions reductions Market Based Mechanism Md Tarikul Islam Mia Mahmudur Rahim Michael Goodall Michele Payne Montara and Deepwater Horizon oil spills Mr Ashley Robb Nagoya Protocol preparing coastal communities for sea level rise public interest environmental harm regulation of electronic waste (e-waste) under the Basel Convention Sanjaya Kuruppu shipping companies' accountability in ballast water-induced pollution regulation State coastal policy's public interest objectives Tania Murray Western Australia's Mining Rehabilitation Fund
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 35 Pt 6
By journalalerts on December 12, 2018
Posted In: Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) Tagged: Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW) biodiversity laws in NSW Brian J Preston Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (and Joint Implementation) Dr Justin Dabner emissions reduction fund ENGOs' use of judicial review Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) environmental laws of Australia environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs) environmental stewardship duties in biosecurity EPLJ Guy J Dwyer Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) Natalie Taylor Paul Martin protecting the Australian environment from synthetic biology Will Richards