Incorporating ESD principles in land-use decision-making: Some issues after Teoh

Environmental and Planning Law Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-53

  Pearson, Linda ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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1. For discussion of international environmental law issues generally, see M Tsamenyi, "The Domestic Consequences of International Environmental Imperatives", P Alston and M Chiam (eds), Treaty-Making and Australia (Federation Press, 1995), pp 163-173
2. D Rothwell and B Boer, "From the Franklin to Berlin; The Internationalisation of Australian Environmental Law and Policy" (1995) 17 Syd LR 242.
3. G Bates, Environmental Law in Australia (4th ed, Butterworths, 1995), pp 32-33.
4. Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 (Tas), Sched 1, Pt 2, cl 3(h). See also Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 (Tas), Sched 1.
5. Section 10(l)(b).
6. Section 10(l)(b)(iv): "to adopt a precautionary approach to the assessment of risk of environmental harm and to ensure that all aspects of environmental quality affected by pollution and Waste (including ecosystem sustainability and valued environmental attributes) are considered in decisions relating to the environment. "
7. Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 1994, ell 51(1)(b)(ii), 84(l)(b)(ii).
8. (1995) 128 ALR 353.
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10. (1993)81 LGERA 270.
11. (1993)81 LGERA 270.
12. (1993)81 LGERA 270.
13. (1993)81 LGERA 270.
14. (1994) 84 LGERA 397.
15. Signed by the Prime Minister, the Premiers of all States except Tasmania, and the Chief Ministers of the Territories in 1992.
16. (1994) 84 LGERA 397 at 419.
17. (1994) 84 LGERA 397 at 419.
18. (1994) 86 LGERA 143.
19. (1994) 86 LGERA 153.
20. (1994) 86 LGERA 154.
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22. Chow Hung Ching v The Queen (1948) 77 CLR 449
23. Bradley v Commonwealth (1973) 128 CLR 557
24. Simsek v McPhee (1982) 148 CLR 636
25. Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (1982) 153 CLR 168
26. Dietrich v The Queen (1992) 177 CLR 292.
27. Polites v Commonwealth (1945) 70 CLR 60
28. Lim v Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1992) 176 CLR 1.
29. Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1.
30. (1995) 128 ALR 353 at 365
31. Mason CJ and Deane J; at 374 per Toohey J. Gaudron J. based the obligation to accord with procedural fairness on the rights of the children as Australian citizens; McHugh J dissented, arguing that the ratification of the Convention did not give rise to a legitimate expectation.
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33. (1995) 128 ALR 353 at 365.
34. (1995) 128 ALR 374.
35. While that is the figure quoted in the Joint Statement, it should be noted that only 328 of the 854 treaties to which Australia is a party and in force at the end of 1994 are multilateral treaties, and only 59 of those are considered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to be significant, multilateral, non-regional treaties: P Alston, "Reform of Treaty-Making Processes: Form over Substance?", P Alston and M Chiam (eds), Treaty-Making and Australia (Federation Press, 1995), pp 1-26 at 9-10.
36. Evans v Friemann (1981) 3 ALD 326
37. Hamblin v Duffy (1981) 34 ALR 333
38. Minister for Industry and Commerce v Tooheys Ltd (1982) 42 ALR 260.
39. See, eg, General Newspapers Pty Ltd v Telstra Corp (1993) 117 ALR 629
40. CEA Technologies Pty Ltd v Civil Aviation Authority (1994) 122 ALR 742.
41. Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31. For the most recent exposition of this principle
42. see Re Australian Education Union; Ex parte Victoria (1995) 128 ALR 609
43. see also G Winterton, "Limits to the Use of the 'Treaty Power' ", P Alston and M Chiam (eds), Treaty-Making and Australia (Federation Press, 1995), pp 29-51.
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47. Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1.