Submission on the Human Rights (Healthy Environment) Amendment Bill 2023 (ACT)
In a submission to the ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety’s inquiry into the proposed new law, the Human Rights Law Centre has called for:
proactive engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the ACT;
the right to a healthy environment to by fully enforceable through the courts so that people can access justice if the right is breached; and
all aspects of the right to a healthy environment to be immediately applicable to decision-makers.
Read the Submission on the Human Rights (Healthy Environment) Amendment Bill 2023 (ACT)