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David Morris of EDO NSW and Nicola Beynon of HSI Australia discuss our legal challenge to the permit granted by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to install 173 lethal drumlines throughout the Park.

Thank you to HSI for the drumline footage in this film.

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Regulating plastics in Pacific Island Countries: a guide for policymakers and legislative drafters, produced by EDO NSW with SPREP and EDO ACT, was included as an information document at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Fourth Intergovernmental Review Meeting in late 2018.

Uncle Badger Bates, Traditional Owner of the Barkandji people, by the Barka/Darling river at Wilcannia, describes its meagre state as "shut-up water".

Our lawyers have worked tirelessly, alongside farmers, scientists, Aboriginal people and communities right along the river system to put forward solutions that work for the environment and people.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has upheld a decision of the NSW Government to withhold key documents relating to the Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine on the Liverpool Plains, in administrative review proceedings run by EDO NSW on behalf of our client Lock the Gate.

In December 2018, we were fortunate to host a visit from Mr Murray Maroroa, Chair of the Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), our principal partner in Papua New Guinea. 

We were very pleased to welcome US environmental lawyer Lisa Garcia to a series of discussions in our office this week.

EDO NSW supported the Landowners Advocacy and Legal Support Unit (LALSU) within the Public Solicitor’s Office (PSO) in Solomon Islands in making history last week. LALSU represented residents of Wagina Island in the first ever hearing of the Environment Advisory Committee (EAC), a tribunal convened to look at the merits of a development consent for a bauxite mine on the island.

Our water law expert Dr Emma Carmody has written an article in the December 2018 issue of LSJ, the Law Society Journal, looking at recent developments in the Murray-Darling Basin. 

The Chair of the EDO NSW Board, Jane Mathews AO, who was the first woman appointed as a judge in NSW, was among women trailblazers honoured at a recent NSW Law Society gala dinner.