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Alexandra McEwan, Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia

'Rights of nature' are being recognised overseas. In Australia, local leadership gives cause for optimism

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As each day passes, the need to protect Australia’s environment grows more urgent. As noted in the most recent State of Environment Report in 2021, we are increasingly turning to “measures of last resort” to prevent species extinctions and the collapse of ecosystems.

In legal theory, the “rights of nature” acknowledges all Earth’s natural elements as having an inherent right to exist and flourish.

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