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Anti-coal harbour blockade highlights ‘punitive’ approach to protest in NSW

Nov 20, 2024 | lsj.com.au | Ethan Hamilton - |Ethan Hamilton

By - Nov 21, 2024 3:30 pm AEDT Working conditions, women’s suffrage, and First Nations’ rights: Australia’s recent history is dotted with examples of change being forced by peaceful assembly and association – or protest.
‘Carve out’ leaves endangered species vulnerable to logging

Jul 16, 2024 | lsj.com.au | Ethan Hamilton - |Ethan Hamilton

By - Jul 17, 2024 9:00 am AEST Environmental activists have condemned what they call a ‘carve out’ of federal legislation protecting endangered species and have vowed to stand in the way of native forest logging in NSW. North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) Vice President Susie Russell is unrepentant about her resistance to logging in the area.
Cleaning up the Climate Change Act

Dec 11, 2023 | lsj.com.au | Ethan Hamilton - |Ethan Hamilton

By - Dec 12, 2023 1:00 pm AEDT As COP28 wraps up on 12 December 2023, pressure mounts for developed nations to reduce their greenhouse emissions.
Greenwashed? Australian parents take energy giant to court

Sep 18, 2023 | lsj.com.au | Ethan Hamilton - |Ethan Hamilton

By - Sep 18, 2023 4:00 pm AEST Australian parents are voicing their concerns around “widespread and unregulated” greenwashing as they take on one of Australia’s biggest energy providers. In August, Australian Parents for Climate Action (AP4CA), represented by Equity Generation Lawyers, filed a claim against EnergyAustralia in the Federal Court.
Crude, cruel and unlawful: Robodebt Royal Commission findings

Aug 8, 2023 | lsj.com.au | Ethan Hamilton - |Ethan Hamilton

By Ethan Hamilton - Aug 09, 2023 12:30 pm AEST Robodebt unfairly made people feel like criminals, says the Royal Commission’s final report. A submission to the Commission highlights the legal flaws of a system that placed efficiency above end users' rights.
On all fronts: Bushfire survivors challenge new coal

Jul 26, 2023 | lsj.com.au | Ethan Hamilton |Ethan Hamilton -

“There’s a number of the documents that particularly need to be changed, such as the New South Wales Government’s Strategic Statement on Coal and the Net Zero Plan, because they contain assumed support for coal extraction and so they’re documents that the courts are looking to when they make their decision,” Lee says. “So that assumed support for coal extraction needs to be removed so those projects have to go through the proper assessment of the emissions and the impacts they have.