MEDIA RELEASE Community group, Environment East Gippsland, has settled its legal challenge to the Environment Protection Authority’s approval of Australian Paper’s proposed Maryvale Mill waste incinerator. “Although we still believe…
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VCAT considers the balance of native vegetation protection and farming under new planning rules On 16 January the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) published its decision and reasons in…
By David Barnden In a world first, 23-year-old Mark McVeigh has filed a legal action alleging the trustee of his retirement fund, the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST), breached the fiduciary duties…
By Lisa Cox Court hears department and VicForests have not protected minimum area of old-growth forest required by law in East Gippsland. Logging in old-growth forests in Victoria should cease,…
By Ruth Williams Industry super fund REST is facing a new federal court legal battle over claims it breached its trustee duties by failing to properly factor climate change-related risks…
By Jamie Williamson An individual member is taking a $50 billion superannuation fund to the Federal Court for failure to disclose its exposure to climate change risk and preventative actions….
MEDIA RELEASE 25 July 2018 Mark McVeigh, 23, is taking his superannuation fund REST to the Federal Court of Australia, seeking information about what the trustees know about the impact…
By Michael Slezak The risk that your super could take a hit to its bottom line because of climate change could soon be something your fund is legally obliged to…
THE Federal Court last week continued an injunction brought against VicForests by the Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum, preventing VicForests from harvesting timber in five coupes in the Central Highlands and…
Court grants injunction to Friends of the Leadbeater’s Possum to protect mountain ash forest until 25 February By Calla Wahlquist VicForests has been banned from logging in areas of sensitive…
MEDIA RELEASE 10 May 2018 The Federal Court has granted an injunction to prevent logging in five areas that are home to Greater Gliders in Victoria’s central highlands, including in…
MEDIA RELEASE 24 April 2018 The Federal Court in Melbourne this morning granted a temporary injunction that prevents VicForests from logging in six areas in Victoria’s Central Highlands that are…
MEDIA RELEASE 20 April 2018 Allegations that state logging agency VicForests failed to identify and protect Leadbeater’s Possums, Greater Gliders and their habitat in accordance with the Central Highlands Regional…
MEDIA RELEASE 2 March 2018 The Federal Court has given hope for the protection of threatened species in a case questioning whether logging in endangered species habitat can continue to…
By Melissa Iaria, AAP The future of the endangered leadbeater’s possum remains in limbo following a Federal Court judgment. It is the emblem of Victoria on the brink of extinction,…
We have commenced an important case in the Federal Court seeking better protection for the Leadbeater’s Possum under our national environment protection law. The Federal Court case seeks to enforce…
MEDIA RELEASE 1 November 2017 Victoria’s Supreme Court has ordered an injunction to prevent state logging agency VicForests from cutting down a spectacular area of old growth forest in eastern…
MEDIA RELEASE 21 September 2017 Commonwealth Bank shareholders Guy and Kim Abrahams have discontinued their Federal Court proceedings against the bank for failing to disclose climate change risks in annual…
EJA has filed proceedings against the Commonwealth Bank on behalf of shareholders for failing to adequately disclose climate change risk in the bank’s 2016 annual report.
MEDIA RELEASE 23 February 2017 Orbost Magistrates Court today dismissed charges against Edward Hill and Joseph Henderson, two community members from Goongerah Environment Centre, who entered a logging area in…
We’ve had a busy morning! Today lawyers from our Forest Law Program, together with Danny Cash, a generous criminal barrister working pro bono, represented four forest activists in the Melbourne…
Who are the ACCR? The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility promotes just and sustainable corporate activity by encouraging ethical investment and facilitating informed shareholder engagement and advocacy. Who are Environmental…
Continual logging in Victoria’s sensitive native forests is causing many of our native species to lose their homes. In East Gippsland, community members took matters into their own hands, heading…
Second inquiry into Hazelwood Mine Fire finds fires ‘likely’ contributed to 11 deaths (RN Breakfast)
Thursday 10/12/15 James Carleton, RN Breakfast ABC Radio A second inquiry set up by the Victorian Labor Government into last year's Hazelwood Mine Fire in Victoria's La Trobe Valley has…
3 September 2015 It is time for Hazelwood Mine owner GDF Suez and the Victorian government to accept responsibility for the health woes of Latrobe Valley residents. Expert testimony at…
31 August 2015 On Tuesday September 1, hearings will commence at the re-opened Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry. “These hearings are of huge importance to the people of the Latrobe Valley….
On 1 June we were in court for a hearing in our case against the Commonwealth Bank. This important test case is about the rights of shareholders to put ordinary…
Our case against the Commonwealth Bank is now scheduled to be heard on 1 June. This case is important in the fight against climate change. If we win, it will…
Last year, we took on a court case against the former Victorian state government’s ‘trial’ of cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park. Our case argued that the grazing trial…
Environmental Justice Australia has commenced a new case in the Federal Court, for our clients the Green Wedges Coalition. The case is a challenge to the decision by Senator Birmingham,…
Last year, we took a court case against the former Victorian state government’s 'trial' of cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park. Our case argues that the grazing trial is…
On Wednesday last week, the Commonwealth Bank held their annual general meeting at which our client, the ACCR, put a special resolution to amend the CBA company constitution to require…
Taking on a powerful organisation like the Commonwealth Bank is not something to do lightly, but this case has the potential to provide a powerful tool for change in Australia.
Who is the ACCR? The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility promotes just and sustainable corporate activity by encouraging ethical investment and facilitating informed shareholder engagement and advocacy. Who is Environmental…
Breaking news: We just received the judgement from VCAT on our Wombat Forest matter.
Today we launched Supreme Court proceedings seeking orders that cattle not be allowed into the Alpine National Park.
At the end of the Great Ocean Road, in the charming town of Port Fairy, you can meet a population of migratory shorebirds who stick to the Aussie tradition of…
This morning, the Federal Court delivered a major win to a conservation group's legal battle to protect the endangered Tasmanian Devil in Tasmania's Tarkine Region.
Australia’s case against Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling program is being heard at the International Court of Justice. The hearing will end on 16 July and a ruling should be handed down…
Image by Steve Kuiter The Environment Defenders Office is very proud to announce that we will soon by representing MyEnvironment, a small Healesville-based environment group, in a one-day hearing in…
Yesterday, we commenced Court proceedings against the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, alleging that they have failed to protect Victoria’s threatened wildlife for years. Our client is Environment East…
In early 2012, members of Friends of Tootgarook Wetlands Reserve noticed a development company removing native vegetation and trucking fill on to a block in Elizabeth Avenue, Rosebud West. They…
Last Friday the Federal Court added its voice to the continuing alpine grazing saga – it handed down its decision on whether Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke’s rejection of the…
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has handed down its decision in Lisa Caripis v Victoria Police, an important case about protesters and their rights to privacy. The EDO…
The EDO is acting for Lisa Caripis, who attended a protest at the Hazelwood Power Station in 2010, where she experienced being filmed by the Victoria Police. The Victoria Police…
The EDO has recently won a case in VCAT to gain access to documents held by the Victorian Government, which the Government used to justify its decision to commence its…
On 14 March 2012, environment group MyEnvironment lost their Supreme Court case against Vicforests. The Court rejected their argument, made on their behalf by their lawyers Bleyer Lawyers and barristers…
On 29 March 2012, VCAT handed down its decision on whether Dual Gas should be allowed to go ahead with a new brown-coal fired power station in the Latrobe Valley….
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of MyEnvironment v VicForests. MyEnvironment, a Central Highlands–based environment group, were seeking to halt logging in Toolangi forest…
The Supreme Court yesterday decided in the case of MyEnvironment Inc v VicForests that the law did not protect an area of Leadbeater's Possum habitat in Toolangi from logging by…
As of 3 January 2012, VCAT has reinstated its Major Cases List. The Major Cases List aims to speed up the planning appeal process for planning disputes that concern high-cost…
