Environment Liaison Office
We host the Environmental Liaison Office (ELO), an alliance of nine leading environmental organisations from across New South Wales. The ELO aims to ensure the shared concerns and priorities of ELO members are communicated consistently to members of parliament. The ELO monitors parliamentary debates, inquiries and legislation, and produces a regular summary of parliamentary debates relating to environmental and natural resource management issues. To subscribe to the free ELO Hansard bulletin, email [email protected].
In the lead up to the 2015 NSW State election, NSW environment groups released Our Environment, Our Future - Policies for the 2015 NSW Election and Beyond. The policy document set out 25 key policy asks across eight broad environment themes. Our Environment, Our Future called for all political parties and candidates to adopt the 25 policies and chart a new course by adopting a bold, positive vision for environmental protection and nature conservation in NSW.
The performance of the Coalition Government in its first two years of Government has been assessed against these 25 key policy asks. See our mid-term report card here.
Reports
In March 2013, at the midpoint of the government’s first term, the ELO produced a score card that reviewed the government’s environmental performance. The report card and the accompanying newspaper, The Score, documented a litany of failures and broken promises.
Before the 2011 state election, the ELO published a comprehensive plan for political action for a healthier, more resilient environment for the benefit of nature, the NSW economy and our society.
The report, titled Natural Advantage: A 2011‐2015 NSW Agenda for Safeguarding the Benefits of Nature, set the benchmark against which the O’Farrell government’s first term in office will be judged.
ELO members
The ELO is hosted by the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and supported by:
The Blue Mountains Conservation Society is an incorporated voluntary group of about nine hundred members helping to conserve the World Heritage Blue Mountains region.
The Colong Foundation for Wilderness, the successor to Myles Dunphy’s National Parks and Primitive Areas Council, is Australia’s longest-serving community advocate for wilderness.
The Central West Environment Council is an umbrella organisation representing conservation groups and individuals in central west NSW working to protect the local environment for future generations.
The National Parks Association of NSW is a non-government conservation group that seeks to protect, connect and restore the integrity and diversity of natural systems in NSW and beyond, through national parks, marine sanctuaries and other means.
The North Coast Environment Council was formed in 1976 as the peak umbrella environment group in northern New South Wales, covering the area from the Hunter to the Tweed and west to the New England Highway.
The South East Regional Conservation Alliance is an alliance of conservation groups from the south coast of New South Wales.
The Total Environment Centre has been campaigning for environment protection in the city and country, changing government policy, advising the community and challenging business since 1972.
The Wilderness Society (TWS) is a national environmental advocacy organisation, with centres in Sydney and Newcastle, dedicated to the protection and restoration of Australia’s unique nature and natural processes.