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NEWS 15 OCT 2018
Keep Victoria Beautiful Tidy Towns Sustainability Awards in Beechworth
Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes was a speaker and presenter at the 2018 Keep Victoria Beautiful Tidy Towns Sustainability Awards in…
NEWS 13 OCT 2018
Talking Waste in Ipswich
Last week, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes attended the Future Waste Resources Convention at the Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich, Queensland which brought…
NEWS 27 AUG 2018
Welcoming the New EP Bill
On the 22 August 2018, the Victorian Parliament passed the Environment Protection Amendment Bill 2018 which will see a transformation to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria's…
NEWS 28 JUL 2018
Is air quality the most important environmental indicator?
I wanted to share some of the fantastic insights from a CEDA event on Innovation Precincts that Andrea Hinwood, Victoria’s Chief Environmental Scientist and I attended last week. We…
NEWS 3 JUL 2018
Victoria says no to plastic waste
Community consultation has helped end of single-use, lightweight plastic shopping bags from 2019 to help protect our environment from plastic pollution. There was an overwhelming response of more…
NEWS 3 JUL 2018
It's delivery time! An EOFY reflection
As we come to the end of the financial year, I wanted to share an update of the work of my team in the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability. Next week we enter year five…
STORY 2 JUL 2018
Making Victoria’s parks more accessible
Standard wheelchairs can’t cope with rugged terrain, which means many parts of Victoria’s parks have been out of bounds to people with limited mobility. Now people visiting many of our parks can book…
STORY 2 JUL 2018
More water, more life
In the dry Mallee country in north-western Victoria, the Hattah Lakes are an oasis for native animals who find food and shelter in these wetlands and floodplains. The lakes are filled seasonally…
NEWS 27 JUN 2018
A Yarra expedition, citizen scientists and precious platypus data
The Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability (OCES) team enjoyed a sunny, wintry field trip up the Yarra River – ahead of the release of the State of the Yarra and its…
NEWS 5 JUN 2018
Beat Plastic Pollution this World Environment Day
This year’s World Environment Day theme is beating plastic pollution. This 5 June, the environment will be celebrated in more than 100 countries and #BeatPlasticPollution is the tag that…