Submissions

The EcoCentre regularly makes submissions to guide policy and strategy on issues regarding long term environmental wellbeing. Some are included below for your reference and reading.

Response to Draft Yarra Strategic Plan (2020)

Waterways of the West – Victorian Consultation (2019)

Melbourne Water draft Healthy Waterways Strategy 2018-2028 (2018)

Victorian State Environmental Protection Policy – Waters (2018)

Senate Marine Plastics Pollution Inquiry (2016)

Waste Resource Recovery Plan (2015)

Response to Timber Harvesting Statement of Regulatory Intent (2019)

Future of Forests – Victorian Consultation (2019) 

Response to Draft Fisheries Spider Crab Notice (2020)

Parliamentary Inquiry into Environmental Infrastructure for a Growing Population (2020)

Parliamentary Inquiry into Victorian EcoSystem Decline (2020)

The Future of Elsternwick Park North (joint submission) (2017)

Coastcare Strategy 2020-2025 (2020)

EPA Victoria Environment Reference Standards (2019)

Parliamentary Inquiry into Community Action to Tackle Climate Change (2019)

Response to Draft Interim Emissions Reduction Targets for Victoria (2019)

Victorian Climate Change targets (Emissions Reductions Targets) (2018)

Tax Deductible Gift Recipient Reform Opportunities (2017)

The EcoCentre acknowledges the Kulin Nations, including the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung language group, traditional owners of the land on which we are located.

We pay respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Elder members of our multicultural community.