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Environment

The Australian Government’s key environmental legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, defines the environment as including: 

  • ecosystems and their constituent parts, including people and communities 
  • natural and physical resources 
  • the qualities and characteristics of locations, places and areas 
  • heritage values of places 
  • the social, economic and cultural aspects of a thing mentioned in the first 3 points. 
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