The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC), the legislation that is supposed to protect and conserve Australia’s matters of national environmental significance is not ...

Beware the criminalisation of environmental protest in Australia. Anti-protest laws of Tasmania and other Australian states should worry all who care about the environment and freedom of expression.

Environmental Justice Australia noted that under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the federal environment minister is legally obligated to craft and ...

On National Threatened Species Day 2023, the Australian Government declared the Empodisma peatlands of southwestern Australia endangered. Edith Cowan University (ECU) environmental scientists ...

Australia plans to set up an independent regulator to hold business to account over environmental breaches. The Environment Protection Agency will audit companies — including in the nation’s ...

The federal government has committed to a landmark overhaul of Australia's environment laws in a move Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says will reverse the decline of Australia's environment.

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), which filed the lawsuit in 2022, said it had realized the challenge was unlikely to succeed due to the lack of climate oversight in the country’s laws.

We’ve long known Australia’s main environmental protection laws aren’t doing their job, and we know Australians want better laws. Labor was elected promising to fix them. Federal Environment ...