Implementing Earth Centred Laws...Reform Proposals •Need not merely improvements to the criteria and processes described above •Positive and enforceable duties needed to avoid

Implementing Earth Centred

Laws

October 2013

Jo Bragg

Principal Solicitor

EDO (Qld) Inc.

Current issues

• Planning reform

• Protected areas reform

• Delegation of Cth approvals power

Justice within the

Homosphere-

in Parliament

Current issues

• Planning reform

• Protected areas reform

• Delegation of Cth approvals power

Justice within the

Homosphere-

administering laws

Justice within the

Homosphere-

in Court

Law Reform

Reform Proposals

• Need not merely improvements to the criteria and

processes described above

• Positive and enforceable duties needed to avoid harm

and to repair and restore

• Parliament is a slow moving mechanism, so extra

mechanisms are needed

Thanks to Sustainable

Engineering Society

EDO Qld website:

www.edo.org.au/edoqld