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NEWS 15 JUN 2020
Celebrating our Bays
As part of our campaign to celebrate Victoria’s marine environment, this week we wanted to share some background to the two most populated Bays – Port Phillip and Western Port. At the edge of the…
NEWS 8 JUN 2020
Happy World Oceans Day
Today is #WorldOceansDay and a perfect time to begin our campaign that reflects on the insights and images from Victoria’s first State of Bays (SotB) report released by the…
NEWS 1 MAR 2020
Transforming recycling in Victoria
The landmark Recycling Victoria 10-year plan was released by the Victorian Government on 26 February 2020. The new circular economy strategy includes a complete overhaul of Victoria’s…
NEWS 12 DEC 2019
Victorian Government's action for long-term sustainability of Victoria's native timber forests
On the 7th November 2019, Victoria’s State Government announced a 30-year plan to phase out native forest logging in Victorian public forests by 2030. This includes an immediate logging ban of old…
NEWS 30 AUG 2019
Signing between the Australian Space Agency and FrontierSI to drive growth for Australia's space and spatial industries
On Thursday, 29 August 2019, FrontierSI signed a Statement of Strategic Intent and Cooperation with the Australian Space Agency in Melbourne. I joined Head of the ASA Dr…
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 14 AUG 2018
A new Marine and Coastal Act
To protect Victoria’s marine and coastal environments now and into the future, we have established a new Marine and Coastal Act as part of a broader package of reforms. On 1 August 2018 the …
STORY 2 JUL 2018
The particulars of plastic
All plastic breaks down into microplastics; every bit of plastic that is manufactured has the potential to end up in our environment. At the moment we know there’s a huge amount of plastic in the…
NEWS 15 FEB 2018
Key updates to the State of the Bays 2016 Report
The launch of 2016 State of the Bays report gave Victoria its first ‘health check’ for the iconic Port Phillip Bay and Western Port. Environmental science and policy-making is a dynamic…
NEWS 6 FEB 2018
Game-changing environmental monitoring reforms are underway
Access to information on the state of the environment through digital platforms will be a powerful enabler of citizen participation and development of local solutions over the next decade in…