Invitation from Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell for an event in Melbourne, Australia:
Listening to the Living Rivers.
Since 2017, rivers and lakes in India have been recognised as legal and living persons, including one of the most iconic rivers in the world, the Ganga. Here in Australia, the Birrarung (Yarra) is the first and, so far, only river to be recognised as a living entity in settler colonial law. Yet rivers and waterscapes throughout this continent have always been known as living ancestral beings in the First Law of Indigenous Peoples.
Melbourne Law School is proud to host an event that brings these living rivers into conversation with each other and ourselves.
Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Host: Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment (MCLE)
Location: Room 202/203, Level 2, Melbourne Law School
Cost: Free
