Environmental Law Links

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Land and its uses
Environment and planning
Livestock, pets and wildlife
Crops and other produce  

Land and its uses

• Inland water
  • Who controls water?
  • Your rights to water
  • What is a waterway?
  • Water licences
  • Building a farm dam
  • Unsafe or leaking dams
  • Maintaining water quality
  • Problems with salinity
  • Protecting fish passage and aquatic habitat
• Mining and quarrying
  • Mineral exploration on your land
  • Mining on your land
  • Mining near a farmhouse
  • Miner's Rights
  • Disposal of water and tailings
  • Rehabilitating your land
  • Abandoned exploration drill holes
  • Quarrying on your land
  • Mining or quarrying your own land
• Native title
  • Mabo: The background
  • The Wik judgment and the effect of native title rights
  • The Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)
  • Association with the land
  • The present state of affairs and the way forward
  • Further reading
• Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation
  • Archaeological and Aboriginal Relics Preservation Act 1972 (Vic)
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth)
  • What are the powers of local aboriginal communities listed in the schedule of the commonwealth act?
  • What is the role of an inspector?
  • What is an emergency declaration of preservation?
  • Penalties for damaging aboriginal cultural heritage

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Environment and planning

• Chemicals and fertiliser
  • Control and use of agricultural chemicals in Australia
  • Controlling and use of agricultural chemicals in Victoria
• Native plants
  • Commonwealth laws
  • Victorian laws
  • Agencies controlling protected flora
  • Local council powers
  • Voluntary community groups
  • Collecting seed or propagation material
• Vermin control
  • Victorian Pest Management Framework
  • Owning or trading pest animals
  • Record keeping and reports
  • Controlling and eradicating pest animals
• Noxious weed control
  • National Weeds Strategy
  • Regionally prohibited weeds
  • Regionally controlled weeds
  • State prohibited weeds
  • Restricted weeds
  • Noxious weeds on your property
  • Remiss landowners
  • Other restrictions
  • Review of Victorian noxious weeds
• Planning law
  • What is a planning scheme and what does it contain?
  • Enforcing a planning scheme
  • Changing a planning scheme
  • Panel hearings
  • When do you need a planning permit?
  • How do you apply for a planning permit?
  • Objecting to an application for a permit
  • Appealing to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
  • Getting more help
  • Effects on the environment
• Pollution control
  • Types of rural pollution
  • Controlling or preventing pollution
  • Dealing with a pollution problem
  • Pollution abatement notices
  • How is waste managed in Victoria?
  • Crying over spilt milk
  • Foul air
  • In the poo
  • Contaminated water and soils from mining
  • EPA licences for potentially-polluting activities
  • Works approvals
• Soil conservation
  • Native vegetation and soil erosion
  • Tax incentives for land care
  • Landcare Programs
  • National cooperation on soil conservation

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Livestock, pets and wildlife

• Animal disease
  • Quarantine
  • Quarantine laws
  • Breaches of quarantine laws
  • Goods that must be declared
  • Controlling livestock disease in Victoria
• Animal exports
  • Export control legislation
  • Prescribed goods
  • Export documentation
  • Exporting animal reproductive material
• Wildlife
  • Legislation relating to wildlife in Victoria
  • Licence to hunt, take, kill, possess, buy or sell wildlife
  • Dogs, cats and wildlife
  • Who may issue a wildlife licence?
  • General conditions of any wildlife licence
  • Licence fees
  • Categories and types of wildlife licence
  • Specific entitlements and conditions of wildlife licences
  • Licence related offences
  • Housing wildlife
  • Transporting wildlife
  • Sick, injured, young or abandoned wildlife
  • Protected species

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Crops and other produce

• Plant breeders' rights
  • Registering a plant
  • Public access to plant varieties
  • Time limits for plant breeders' rights
  • Publication of notices
  • Applications: inspections and objections
  • Infringement of PBR
  • Offences under the Act
  • Fees
• Seeds
  • Sale of prohibited seeds
  • Collecting local seed
  • Permits
  • Costs of seed collection
  • Permit conditions
• Plant disease
  • Importing plants and products
  • Plant pests and diseases in Victoria
  • Importing plants and products from interstate
  • Exporting plants and products interstate
  • Notification of plant pests or diseases
  • Exotic pests and diseases
  • Packaging plants for human consumption
• Forestry
  • Plantations on cleared agricultural land
  • Planning permits for plantations
  • The Code of Forest Practices
  • Laws controlling the forestry industry
  • Owning trees on someone else's land
• Organic farming
  • Certification
• Sale of farm produce
  • International market access
  • Government export assistance
  • A contract of sale
• Selling grain
  • Spot cash price contracts
  • Marketing pools
  • Forward price contracts
  • Hedge-to-arrive contracts
  • Other grain marketing options
  • The 'single desk' and competition policy
• Selling livestock
  • Saleyard auctions
  • Other sales methods
• Selling wool
  • Auction
  • Other sales methods
• Food standards and safety
  • Victorian food law
  • Unsafe food
  • Food emergencies
• Genetically modified crops
  • Introduction
  • Legislation
  • Objective of the Act
  • Victoria and GM legislation
  • Benefits and risks of gene technology

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