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Advocacy

We believe in a bipartisan and apolitical approach to successfully achieve our strategic objectives

Our approach to advocacy

  • Promoting examples of best practice regenerative land management practices.

  • Engaging with business, industry, research institutions, politicians and land managers to promote the restoration of landscape function.

  • Helping governments to create ‘enabling’ legislation and policy reform on issues affecting the management of water, plants and landscape.

What we advocate for

  • Government and legislative reform to facilitate landscape rehydration and restoration across Australia.   

Calling for a National Code of Practice

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Mulloon Institute, October 2023, 9.9 MB

DOWNLOAD THE CODE EXEC SUMMARY
Mulloon Institute, October 2023, 1 MB

NSW Government leads Australia with progressive legislation to heal our waterways

 

Acting on Mulloon Institute’s direct submission, in December 2022 the NSW State Environmental Planning Policy was amended to smooth the path for installation of natural structures to repair degraded streams, known as ‘Landscape Rehydration Infrastructure’. The amendment removes the need for a Development Application from Councils, a time consuming and costly process currently preventing critical land restoration projects from proceeding across Australia.

In March 2023 the NSW Department of Planning and Environment gazetted the Landscape rehydration infrastructure works –approvals and procedures guideline that provides the new planning pathway. 

It is likely this will be a tipping point, leading to reform in other states. But Mulloon Institute is pushing for more, lobbying for a National Code of Practice for Landscape Restoration and Rehydration. This would integrate the many environmental safeguards that protect water quality, biodiversity and cultural heritage into a streamlined compliance process.

While it is relatively easy to build leaky weirs and other ‘landscape rehydration works’ in degraded catchments – the problem is getting approvals to build such structures.

The Mulloon Law Committee was formed in 2019 to advise Mulloon Institute on strategies to reduce significant and burdensome government approvals needed for implementing catchment remediation projects.  

The major hurdle we face in repairing our creeks and streams is (ironically) environmental, planning, water and heritage regulation. The very laws meant to protect our natural assets are currently acting to prevent environmental repair. 

To solve this problem the law committee advises on State and Territory based regulatory reform and a new national code-based approach to environmental regulation. 

Mulloon Law Committee

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