New legislation will allow the Victorian government to raise substantially more money from housing estate developers to pay for long-delayed, large new conservation reserves.
The impact of Victoria's bushfires on threatened species might justify applying the precautionary principle in a more expansive way, the state's Supreme Court has ruled.
Developers in outer Melbourne don't make EPBC referrals because the state government promised to establish large new conservation reserves as offsets, but it has failed to buy the land.
A tribunal has refused to grant Alinta a planning permit for a wind farm because of its impact on an airfield and its proximity to a roosting area for a critically endangered bat.