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Nov 24 2019

Media Release: First Rights of Nature bill introduced in Australia

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24 Nov, 2019

Rights of Nature and Future Generations Bill Introduced in Western Australian Parliament

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Dr Michelle Maloney
Australian Centre for …

Aug 16 2019

Recognizing Rights of Great Barrier Reef Could Help Defeat Destructive Coal Mine Project

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Conventional environmental laws have allowed Adani’s Carmichael coal mine go forward in Australia. It’s time we changed them.

Michelle Maloney and Mari Margil

August 5, 2019

Recently, groundwater extraction permits were granted for the controversial Carmichael coal mine project in …

May 13 2019

Rights of nature laws are key to protecting Blue Mountains: Greens candidate

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Affording nature the same rights as a person is an emerging legal movement globally that is gathering steam in Australia, says the Federal Greens candidate for Macquarie.

Kingsley Liu said that rights of nature laws are the key to protecting

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Apr 14 2019

The Rights of Nature: Building a New People’s Movement for the Earth

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Guest Blog Post By Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

When Dr. Seuss’s Lorax sees the Truffula trees being destroyed, he declares: “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

No …

Mar 31 2019

Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations and Nature

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The Green Institute - Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations And Nature
https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/publications/rebalancing-rights/

Rebalancing Rights - book coverThis collection began its life as an exploration of the concept of Rights of Nature. However, in early research and conversations it swiftly became clear that it would be …

Mar 27 2019

Resilience in the Face of a Water Crisis

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Lake Menindee boat ramp at Sunset Strip.

Blog from Citizens' Inquiry into the Health of the Darling River and Menindee Lakes - 27 March, 2019

I just returned home after a whirlwind series of public hearings of the Citizen’s Inquiry into the Health of the Darling River …

Mar 24 2019

Public Hearings in Menindee: ‘ground zero’ of the Darling River crisis

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Menindee Local

Blog from Citizens' Inquiry into the Health of the Darling River and Menindee Lakes - 24 March, 2019

Our first week of Public Hearings, in Mildura/Buronga, Wentworth and Broken Hill--as part of the Citizens' Inquiry into the Health of the …

Mar 23 2019

Reflections from the first days of the Citizens’ Inquiry

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Blog from Citizens' Inquiry into the Health of the Darling River and Menindee Lakes - 23 March, 2019

by Michelle Maloney

We’ve had three full days and one half day of Public Hearings for the Citizens' Inquiry into the Health …

Mar 16 2019

There’s a growing push to give nature legal rights, but what would that mean?

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By environment reporter Nick Kilvert

Mother Earth, Gaia, Pachamama, Papatuanuku: different cultures have long used human metaphors to define nature.

But while there's evidence that anthropomorphism can help foster empathy and respect for the environment, there's a movement of people …

Mar 06 2019

Giving legal rights to nature

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Can nature, rivers, mountains or animals, have legal rights - just like people? Legal rights will change the relationship we have with nature and that’s crucial to really protect the environment.

Recorded at the Australian Earth Laws Alliance's "International Symposium: …