Australia is set to to overhaul its decades-old nature laws with a raft of major reforms including the country's first independent environment regulator. After a years-long deadlock, the Labor ...

Australia’s main environmental law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), has finally been rewritten. After years of warnings that the old law was “not fit for ...

Australia passed a landmark bill to overhaul the nation's environmental laws after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government struck a deal with the left-wing minority Greens party. Both houses of ...

FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming ...

On 30 October 2025, the Australian Minister for Environment introduced three Bills to the federal Parliament that, if enacted, will constitute the most important change to national environmental law ...

Large carbon-emitting projects in Australia will be required to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions as well as pollution reduction goals under new legislation overhauling decades-old environmental ...

Australia's first tranche of national environment law reforms has commenced. This marks an important step in advancing the reform program, with work ...

Phillipa C. McCormack receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Natural Hazards Research Australia, the National Environmental Science Program, Green Adelaide and the ACT Government. She ...

Australia's first tranche of national environment law reforms has commenced. This marks an important step in advancing the reform program, with work ...