Friends of hinchinbrook society Ine ν Minister for Environment and management of world heritage

Environmental and Planning Law Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-305

  Fleming, Atticus ^a  

^a Office of the Minister for the Environment   (Australia)

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References (60)

1. Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 158 CLR 1.
2. Richardson v Forestry Commission (1988) 164 CLR 261.
3. Queensland v Commonwealth (1988) 64 LGRA 367; 77 ALR 291.
4. Unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997.
5. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
6. In fact, two places on the Register of the National Estate (Cardwell Range-Herbert River Gorge Area and the Great Barrier Reef region) and one place on the Interim List of the Register (Wet Tropical Forests of North Queensland) cover parts of Hinchinbrook channel.
7. The facts in this section are taken from the judgment in the FOH case.
8. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
9. Section 9 of the World Heritage Act relies upon the external affairs power for its constitutional validity.
10. See reg 3f and Sched 2d to the World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations.
11. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
12. Section 10 of the World Heritage Act relies upon the corporations power for its constitutional validity and so applies only to the corporations referred to in s 51(xx) of the Constitution, and servants and agents of such corporations. The developer is a "trading corporation, " for the purposes of s 51 (xx) of the Constitution, and so is bound by s 10 of the World Heritage Act.
13. Section 10(4) also applied to some of the acts for which consent was granted. It is not proposed to discuss the application of this subsection in this commentary as it raises no pertinent issues.
14. See s 4 a of the Environment Protection (Impact ofProposals) Act 1974.
15. The facts in this section are taken from the Minister's statement of reasons. They are consistent with the evidence relied upon by Sackville J.
16. FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court. 14 February 1997), p 41.
17. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
18. Paragraph 53 of the statement of reasons.
19. FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997), p 49.
20. (1983) 158 CLR 1.
21. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
22. (1988) 164 CLR 261.
23. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
24. FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997), p 52.
25. Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 158 CLR 1 at 224.
26. See s 5(1)(e) and (2)(g) of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977.
27. This commentary does not purport to comment on the merits of the decisions, only on the legality of any application to the Federal Court to, in effect, review the merits of the decisions.
28. (1990) 170 CLR 1 at 37.
29. FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997), p 5.
30. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
31. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
32. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
33. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
34. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
35. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
36. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
37. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
38. For example, in s 13(1) of the World Heritage Act.
39. For example, as a result of the well established principle that legislation should be construed as far as possible consistently with international law.
40. It does not, eg, address rehabilitation of world heritage areas.
41. FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997), p 74.
42. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
43. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
44. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
45. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
46. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
47. (1993) 81 LGERA 270.
48. Cited at pp 99-100 in the FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997).
49. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
50. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
51. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
52. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
53. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
54. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
55. (1990) 25 FCR 1; 98 ALR 68.
56. FOH case (unreported, Sackville J, Federal Court, 14 February 1997), p 87.
57. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
58. Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1986) 25 ILM 1370.
59. (1995) 60 FCR 456 and (unreported, High Court, 18 March 1997). See M Brennan, "The Concept of the National Estate: Federal Court Interpretation" (1996) 13 EPLJ 316.
60. Australia, House of Representatives, 21 April 1983, second reading speech, Parliamentary Debates, p 52.