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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act) is the Australian Government's central piece of environmental legislation. It provides a legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places — defined in the Act as matters of national environmental significance. More about the EPBC Act

9 February 2010

Company pays out over rock art damage

A WA company which damaged protected rock art on the Burrup Peninsula must pay at least $280,000 and enter into financial agreements with local Indigenous groups.

Melbourne strategic assessment

4 February 2010

Melbourne's urban growth program moving forward

In a national first, the Commonwealth and Victorian governments have agreed on a process to cut red tape and streamline environmental assessments in the implementation of the Victorian Government’s Delivering Melbourne’s newest sustainable communities program.

27 January 2010

Tarkine road project

Public invited to comment on draft Environmental Impact Statement guidelines.

20 January 2010

Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project

Draft Public Environment Report is available for public consultation.

20 January 2010

Goolwa Channel flow regulators to be assessed

Draft guidelines for the preparation of an environmental impact statement on the Goolwa Channel regulators are open for public comment from 20 January to 4 February 2010.

15 January 2010

New ecological community listing - Lake Clifton Thrombolites, WA

The list of threatened ecological communities under the EPBC act has been amended to include the Thrombolite (microbialite) Community of a Coastal Brackish Lake (Lake Clifton).

21 December 2009

Hawke report recommends changes to national environment law

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has announced the release of the Final report of the Independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

18 December 2009

Tarkine road project to be assessed

A project to build a road through the Tarkine in Tasmania will need to undergo the federal environmental assessment and approval process.

10 December 2009

Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest

The Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest (previously named Cumberland Plain Woodlands) ecological community listing upgraded to critically endangered.

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