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NEWS 16 OCT 2018

Great Ocean Road Action Plan

Great news for the iconic Great Ocean Road. The Victorian Government has announced a commitment to create a standalone Act of Parliament that – for the first time – defines the coastal land and…

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 1 OCT 2018

Victoria’s environmental reporting leadership showcased at the International Conference on Sustainable Development in New York

It is a great privilege for Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes to be presenting at the International Conference on Sustainable Development at Columbia…

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 30 JUL 2018

Release of the 2018 Interim State of the Environment Report

The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Dr Gillian Sparkes has released the Interim Victorian State of the Environment Report 2018. It provides a progress report on preparations for…

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

30 years of renewable energy in Victoria

Past and future performance A 2014 Climate Council report found Victoria and NSW were the only Australian states that had not increased the proportion of renewable energy in their…