The precautionary principle in EPBC Act referrals
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Last Monday, 25 July 2022, Justice Moshinsky of the Federal Court handed down the Court’s decision in Bob Brown’s legal challenge concerning the protection of Masked Owls in the Tarkine[i]. The application for judicial review concerned the application of the precautionary principle to decision-making under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) in…