After years of failed attempts, Australia’s environmental laws are finally getting an overhaul. But will they stop the damage done to nature?
- Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?
In his National Press Club address, Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry made the case for urgent, ambitious nature law reform to boost productivity while saving species.
South Australia’s new Biodiversity Act will achieve things no federal or state law has done before. It shows states and territories can achieve ambitious reform.
After shelving plans to reform Australia’s nature laws, the prime minister wants to walk back existing protections with new legislation introduced this week.
Legally binding deals struck with landholders can help protect and restore the environment over the long term.
We need a way for our laws to protect both humans and nature when it comes to bushfire risk
Newly revealed documents show the Commonwealth government approved a controversial tourism plan for Tasmania’s World Heritage wilderness without assessing it against federal conservation legislation.
Australia’s conservation laws presume that we can preserve everything in its natural state. But in a changing world, we’ll have to be more flexible than that.
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