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Case study 3.5: Challenge to dredging of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria (p. 101)
Legal:
For information on the case, see Anne Kallies and Lee Godden, ‘What Price Democracy? Blue Wedges and the Hurdles to Public Interest Environmental Litigation’ (2008) 33(4) Alternative Law Journal 194.
See also Chris McGrath, ‘Flying foxes, dams and whales: Using federal environmental laws in the public interest’ (2008) 25(5) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 324, and Rachel Baird, ‘Public Interest Litigation and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act’ (2008) 25 (6) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 410.
Policy:
For information on the campaign against the dredging, see the Blue Wedges website (www.bluewedges.org), and look at their YouTube video (‘Channel Deepening Port Philip Bay’, available at www.youtube.com).
For information on the environmental effects of the dredging, visit the EPA Victoria website (www.epa.vic.gov.au), which has a section devoted to the channel deepening project, including environmental effects statements.
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