Environmental Law

In February 2021, we released a newsletter about the Final Report (Report) of the second Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act) which was publicly released in early 2021. (Our update can be accessed here).

In March, the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Resources and Water issued a joint media release advising that the Federal Government has announced a Budget reform package of $128.5 million to provide greater certainty around environmental protection, strengthen compliance and streamline the assessment and decision-making processes.

Significantly, the government has advised that the package ‘will help protect the environment, while supporting economic recovery and helping to create jobs in regional and rural communities’.

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