For example, The University of Adelaide Law School, in conjunction with Adelaide law firm Lipman Karas, runs a law clinic providing basic free legal advice to people appearing in the Adelaide Magistrates Court. Many Australian law schools offer similar clinics.
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The writer both coordinates and teaches the environmental law subject in the Adelaide Law School.
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The writer spent over 25 years as a lawyer in a private environmental and planning law practice in Adelaide.
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See, eg, the Convention on Biological Diversity 1982, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992, the Kyoto Protocol 1998, the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972.
Field trips in environmental law courses are relatively unusual in Australia although more common in the US. A well-known US Law School field trip is that conducted by Lewis and Clark Law School at Portland, Oregon. For many years they have run a program, ‘Taking Law Students Outdoors’ with two streams, one based on land ecosystems and one on coastal. See WeisJanice, ‘Environmental Law: A 35-Year Perspective’ (2005) <http://law.lclark.edu/programs/environmental_and_natural_resources_law/perspectives/>.
This program is consistent with the aims of The University of Adelaide's Reconciliation statement, which aims to ‘Increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, histories and perspectives in faculty course offerings and curriculum content, including staff cultural awareness training’. See https://www.adelaide.edu.au/reconciliation/.
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This visit was brokered by the writer with the assistance of Associate Professor David Paton, from The University of Adelaide's School of Ecology and Environmental Science and Peter Copley, Senior Ecologist, SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.
In this article it has been called Arid Recovery reserve although it is not a reserve recognised under the State's system for reservation contained in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 (SA). The operators of the area call it simply Arid Recovery'.
In situ conservation of species involves the protection of species within their natural habitat whereas ex situ usually involves the breeding of species in zoos or special breeding facilities and their reintroduction into appropriate habitat. Articles 8 and 9 of the Biodiversity Convention contemplate both as appropriate conservation measures.
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BHP became owner of the mine in 2005.
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Roxby Downs Indenture Ratification Act 1982 (SA) s 7.
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Roxby Downs Indenture Ratification Act 1982 (SA) s 9.
For example, the Development Act 1993 (SA) provides an environmental impact process but only for developments declared to be ‘major projects’ by the planning minister, see ss 46–48E. At the federal level, there is a process whereby actions which might have a significant impact on a matter of national environmental significance can be required to undergo environmental impact assessment see Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth).
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For some background on the Woomera Range Complex see: Australian Government, Department of Defence, About the Woomera Prohibited Area (2016) <http://www.defence.gov.au/woomera/about.htm>.
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WartaIga, Adnyamathanha Culture with Adnyamathanha People on Adnyamathanha land (undated) <http://www.igawarta.com/exper.html>. The Iga Warta Indigenous Cultural Centre had been used previously by the University of Adelaide for cultural awareness training and is also used by the SA government for such purposes.
This map was prepared in 1865 and was remarkably accurate in predicting the area above which there was no guarantee of a reliable enough level of rain for farming purposes.
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A detailed discussion of Goyder's work and life can be found in SheldrickJanis, Nature's Line: George Goyder, Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary (Wakefield Press, 2013).
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Australian Conservation Foundation v State of South Australia (1989) 53 SASR 349.
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As of 12 February 2016, the Flinders Ranges National Park has been renamed Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park. Ikara is an Adnyamathanha word meaning ‘meeting place’. The Adnyamathanha people are the group indigenous to the area. They used the word Ikara to describe Wilpena Pound which is a natural amphitheatre formed by a circle of the mountains in the Ranges. The Pound is arguably the most prominent feature in the National Park.
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MitchellAndrew, ‘Education in the Field: A Case Study of Experiential Learning in International Law’ (2011) 21(1) Legal Education Review69.
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The writer acknowledges the inherent difficulties in actually defining a ‘career ready’ graduate.
