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NEWS 21 NOV 2017
The Catchment Condition and Management Report finds management practices promising
The Victorian Catchment Management Council’s (VCMC), 2017 Catchment Condition and Management Report has been tabled in the Victorian parliament. This is the fifth Catchment Condition and Management…
NEWS 20 NOV 2017
Banning single-use plastic shopping bags
The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Dr Gillian Sparkes, welcomes the Victorian Government’s commitment to ban single-use, lightweight plastic shopping bags. Reducing the number of…
NEWS 16 NOV 2017
Port Phillip Bay Environmental Management Plan 2017-2027
The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability welcomes the release of the Port Phillip Bay Environmental Management Plan 2017-2027 by the Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Lily…
NEWS 16 NOV 2017
Waste not – new technologies to create energy from waste
The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability has welcomed the recently released discussion paper on the development of new technologies to convert waste into energy. The amount of…
NEWS 1 NOV 2017
Higher impact environmental reporting and fronting up with wicked solutions
The Commissioner was honoured to speak at the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Inc (EIANZ) annual conference in Wellington, New Zealand this week. It’s…
NEWS 28 OCT 2017
The Australian magpie takes bird of the year win
Congratulations to the Australian magpie, which has been crowned BirdLife Australia’s bird of the year for 2017, upsetting the early favourite, the white ibis, and winning 13.3% of the vote. …
NEWS 12 OCT 2017
Community have their say at the Southern Metropolitan Partnership Annual Assembly
As a resident of the southern metropolitan region, I was pleased to be one of over 200 community members at the Southern Metropolitan Partnership 2017 Annual Assembly in Frankston last…
NEWS 3 OCT 2017
Dr Gillian Sparkes at the Data Democracy Project
Last month, I participated in the Data Democracy Project, devised by the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia. I was interviewed by …
NEWS 21 SEP 2017
State of the Bays 2016 inspires an international effort to counter plastics pollution
Research published in the State of the Bays 2016 report gained international attention as a result of the United Nations Development Programme’s second annual Global Goals Jam. …
NEWS 1 SEP 2017
EIANZ speech discusses high-impact reporting
"It is not enough to analyse the problem. We must be in the business of helping to deliver solutions”, the Commissioner told members at the Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand…