Shifts in Victorian climate law and policy and the planning system

Since December 2008 Victoria’s climate policy framework has changed significantly. The changes have been driven by, and most readily observed within, the Victorian planning system. It has been these changes in Victoria and earlier elsewhere (particularly in NSW through decisions by the Land and Environment Court) that have given rise to a ‘new climate law’ [...]

Scarcity or plenty in Tasmania’s forests?

I gave this presentation at the Fifteenth Public Law Weekend at the ANU on 3 September. The conference theme was Scarcity, Sustainability and Public Law: Scarcity or plenty in Tasmania’s forests? A clash of legal and scientific understandings in the Wielangta forest dispute Tasmanian forestry has been the subject of politicisation and conflict for decades, [...]