Debate for Justice 2025 - Environmental Defenders Office & QUT Centre for Justice

Environmental Defenders Office and QUT Centre for Justice, are thrilled to invite you to celebrate our 40th birthday with the EDO 2025 Debate for Justice in Brisbane/Meanjin. 

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 5:30 PM canapes | 6:00 PM - 8.30PM event 
Location: QUT Kelvin Grove Campus – E Block Level 5 

Join us for our annual celebration with food, drinks, and debate to celebrate 40 years of the Enivronmental Defenders Office across Australia.

MC'd by Fleur Kingham, with research insights from QUT team members Monica Taylor and Francis Nona.
The debating team will feature The Honourable Alan Wilson KC and Stephen Keim SC.

Tony Woodyatt, key founder of EDO in Queensland, will share what inspired him to start this wonderful organisation.   

Your ticket will include one drink, canapes and fun. 

Donations to EDO are welcomed when purchasing your ticket, or on the night. 

We look forward to seeing you there and sharing in the fun with us.

About the EDO

Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is the largest environmental legal centre in the Australia-Pacific, dedicated to protecting our climate, communities and shared environment by providing access to justice, running groundbreaking litigation and leading law reform advocacy.

We are an accredited community legal service and a non-government, not-for-profit organisation that uses the law to protect and defend Australia’s wildlife, people and places.

About our hosts, QUT Centre for Justice

The QUT C4J carries out that research that is co-designed with industry partners in government, community, for-profit and not-for-profit agencies, across Australia and internationally. In practice and theory, we explore the proposition that research can help to make the delivery of justice available and meaningful to all, regardless of social, legal, political, economic or other circumstances, and where they are situated. Our research focuses on finding solutions to social injustice, regardless of social status or geo-political spatial location in a globalised world.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a major Australian university with a truly global outlook. Home to nearly 50,000 students, we’re providing real-world infrastructure, learning and teaching, and graduate skills to the next generation of change-makers.