by Mitchell Harley | Nov 9, 2025 | Blog
Environmental Reforms: Opportunities That Must Not Be Missed The Australian Parliament has another opportunity to reform laws that will address the huge array of issues confronting the degradation of Australia’s environment. Since 1996 successive State of Environment...
by Mitchell Harley | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog
Marine Conservation in Australia My attention has been drawn to a paper just published with the very forthright title” Marine conservation leadership: does Australia walk the talk” (C. Klein et al., 2025, Conservation Letters, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13147). It...
by Mitchell Harley | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog
Climate Change Risk To Our Coastal Cities Confronting the nation’s coastal urban cities as it approaches 2055, 30 years on, will be both higher sea levels and air and water temperatures. And 50 years from now (in 2075) sea levels will be substantially higher (and...
by Mitchell Harley | Jul 24, 2025 | Blog
Torres Strait Islanders Court Case and Climate Change Judgment in the federal court case involving traditional owners of islands in the Torres Strait against the Australian Government has recently been handed down. The decision by Justice Michael Wigney has attracted...
by Mitchell Harley | May 9, 2025 | Blog
Election 2025: What Can The Australian Government Do For Coastal Management? There is always a temptation to dream after an election that a “new” government may take a closer look at what it can do in addressing the plethora of issues facing management of the...