On 1 July 2021 the largest change to Victoria’s environmental laws in half a century came into effect.
Victoria’s Environment Protection Act 2017 increased EPA’s powers and fundamentally shifted the State’s approach to environmental regulation. This new preventative approach and Australia’s first criminally enforceable general environmental duty have significantly altered how EPA operates and our plan to meet the environmental challenges Victoria faces.
As we approached the first anniversary of this major change, EPA's Chief Environmental Scientist, Professor Mark Patrick Taylor, and special guests Professor Kate Auty (EPA Governing Board Chair) and Mark Rossiter (Executive Director, Operations) shared insights from within EPA and on-the-ground across Victoria.