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Environmental Justice Australia
@envirojustice.bsky.social
We're a public interest legal organisation for environmental justice and a radically better world. ⚖️🌿

Authorised by E McKinnon & N Rivers EJA Melbourne

Website ➡️ https://envirojustice.org.au
Contact us ➡️ [email protected]
🚨 Big news: our client The Wilderness Society has just settled a landmark case for threatened wildlife.

For the first time, these animals will finally get legally binding roadmaps to survive and recover.

Read the full story: envirojustice.org.au/landmark-win...
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Victoria just created 3 new national parks and 2 conservation parks, This protects habitat for more than 380 threatened species and is the first big addition to parks in 14 years.

Decades of community advocacy made this happen. Now it’s time for government to fund their care and restoration.
September 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🌏 For over 20 years, Nicola Rivers has worked with Australia’s national nature laws. She knows every section, every loophole, every trigger.

Now with once-in-a-generation reform on the line, she shares what’s really at stake.

📢 Want the full story? www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science...
August 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
EJA lawyers were back in court representing Lock the Gate for their landmark Beetaloo Sub-Basin fracking case.

This is the first-ever test of Australia’s strengthened “water trigger”, which protects water from unconventional gas projects.

Read the recap: envirojustice.org.au/closing-subm...
August 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Right now, the Albanese government is rewriting parts of the EPBC Act.

What’s decided in the next few weeks could lock in the rules that govern nature protection for decades.

The time to act is now: envirojustice.org.au/nature-law-r...
August 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“A new legal standard for climate justice” – Retta Berryman, EJA.
The International Court of Justice has delivered a powerful advisory opinion: countries that fail to act on climate could be breaching international law.
www.crikey.com.au/.../internat...
#ClimateJustice #ICJ #PabaiPabai #PISFCC
August 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"The court has really met the moment in bringing all of those legal obligations and interpreting them in the climate reality, and the urgency of this kind of existential crisis for the entire world,” said Retta Berryman, EJA.

Read more: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
July 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“To put it simply, this case is historic!”
– EJA Senior Lawyer Hannah White on yesterday's International Court of Justice decision, speaking to ABC News.

Watch more:
envirojustice.org.au/icj-makes-hi...
July 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm Maddie.

This week the Environment Minister visited my home state to see the devastation caused by the toxic algal bloom, wreaking havoc since March.

This disaster is a wake-up call. We need urgent leadership – and real climate action now!

We've gone to the UN: www.generationjustice.org.au
July 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
NAIDOC Week has been a celebration – and a call to action.
It’s a time to honour legacy, and to listen deeply to the voices shaping what comes next.

Read more: envirojustice.org.au/naidoc-next-...

#NAIDOC2025 #NextGenerationNow #ClimateJustice #FirstNationsJustice
July 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM