"The Birrarung [River] is alive, has a heart, a spirit and is part of our Dreaming.”

Beautiful preamble to an Australia law to protect the river. Written in both English and the Traditional Owners’ language of Woi-wurrung. Framed in the worldview of the Traditional Owners.

The law doesn't give the river legal rights or representation, but it is a step toward rights of nature.

#RightsOfNature #river #YarraRiver #Birrarung #Indigenous #worldview #Australia

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2023/03/03/1385376/australias-rights-of-nature-push-flows-from-the-yarra-river

Tolles Gespräch mit
Clint Jasper über den #Birrarung, den ersten Fluss Australiens, der nach dem Recht der Siedler als Lebewesen anerkannt wurde, und was es für den Birrarung Council bedeutet, für den #Fluss zu sprechen.

#YarraRiver #RightsofNature #RechtederNatur #1planet #RechtaufRecht #RechtaufExistenz

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/countrybreakfast/features/102045610