The Australian Peoples’ Tribunal (APT) for Community and Nature’s Rights will seek submissions and testimonies from all interested people, in order to assess if Australia’s Planning Laws are fit for purpose in the 21st Century, given our communities and ecosystems face severe, detrimental impacts due to climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. The APT Planning Inquiry will assess the current state and impact of Australia’s Planning Laws – across all Australian jurisdictions (Federal, State, Territory and Local Laws) – and assess if and how Australia’s Planning Laws should be changed and improved, to ensure healthy, flourishing ecosystems and a regenerative and livable future for all forms of life (human and non-human) across the continent now known as Australia.
Input from interested people is invited relating to any issues they deem important to the future of Australia’s Planning Laws, and in particular, regarding any of the following questions:
- Do Australia’s Planning Laws provide adequate protection to ensure the healthy regeneration and flourishing of Australia’s biodiversity and ecosystems?
- If so, what examples demonstrate that Australia’s Planning Laws provide adequate protection
- If not, what are the barriers and problems that exist, that prevent Austalia’s Planning Laws from ensuring the healthy regeneration and flourishing of Australia’s biodiversity and ecosystems? How could these laws be changed and improved?
- What examples exist, that show the impact of Australia’s Planning Laws on Australia’s ecosystems?
- Do Australia’s Planning Laws provide an appropriate and fair voice for local communities to protect and care for their local ecosystems?
- If so, what examples demonstrate that Australia’s Planning Laws provide an appropriate and fair voice for local communities to protect and care for their local ecosystems?
- If not, what are the barriers and problems that exist, that prevent Australia’s Planning Laws from ensuring the healthy regeneration and flourishing of Australia’s biodiversity and ecosystems? How could these laws be changed and improved?
- Do Australia’s Planning Laws reflect, protect or support Indigenous Peoples’ priorities and practices for Caring for Country?
- If so, what examples demonstrate that Australia’s Planning Laws reflect, protect or support Indigenous Peoples’ priorities and practices for Caring for Country?
- If not, what are the barriers and problems that exist, that prevent Australia’s Planning Laws from being able to reflect, protect or support Indigenous Peoples’ priorities and practices for Caring for Country? How could these laws be changed and improved?
- How can Australia’s Planning Laws be improved, to ensure that Australian people live within with their ecological limits and restore and regenerate the living world upon which they depend?