Nothing lives alone nor for itself is a natural phenomenon in nature as elsewhere.  Trouble is human society tries at every turn to box things up into discrete portions, which is ideal for creating lists and giving the impression that having ticked each item off, all will be well.  But invariably, there are other pressing issues that require our attention, which makes this approach to accounting, by Jane Gleeson-White, worthy of our attention.

In Valuing Country, Let me count three ways, (Griffith Review # 63), we are presented with a range of ideas that, combined, provide us with solutions to many of our current problems.  Here’s one example from Gleeson-White. To readers of this magazine, it’s nothing new …

“… we need to change the very building blocks of our societies: our laws. The rights-of-nature movement proposes just such a change. Rather than counting nature, rights of nature makes nature count. It does so by shifting nature’s status from that of inert property to be used for human consumption to that of a rights-bearing entity

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Indigenous cultures and contact history: Timeline
The Koori Storylines include personal stories by Aboriginal people. The content is designed to provide a stimulus for people, including teachers and students, to investigate the notion of shared histories. Key social, cultural and political events are mapped, giving Aboriginal and non-Indigenous a detailed understanding of past events and promoting conversations and discussion.

MMM … Issue 24, November 2021