Michael Vardon

Aug 14, 2024 | sustainabilitybites.com | Michael Vardon |David Salt

The Blue Mountains rise to the west of Sydney, NSW. In the year 2000 it was included on UNESCO’s World Heritage register for its representation of the evolutionary adaptation and diversification of eucalypts in post-Gondwanan Australia. Those eucalypts are rich in oil, filling the air with a distinctive blue haze that gives the region its name.

Jun 30, 2024 | sustainabilitybites.com | Michael Vardon |Peter Burnett |David Salt

By Michael Vardon and Peter BurnettAustralia is about to get its first comprehensive national law on environmental information. In a post-truth world, trusted information is more important than ever, and, as in other sectors, we must have confidence in the laws and agencies providing environmental information and measuring progress on “nature positive”. A lot is at stake in the current parliamentary debate of the Nature Positive (Environment Information Australia) Bill 2024.