Heal Country Series: Law of the Land

Lecturer in Environmental Politics, and SEI Postdoctoral Fellow-Multispecies Justice, Dr Christine Winter explores this year's NAIDOC week theme 'Heal Country, Heal the Nation' in a four-part podcast series. The series asks Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to explain what ‘Heal Country, Heal the Nation’ means to them. Running through the series is an exploration of First Nations knowledge and philosophies as key to healing (and protecting) human and nonhuman realms. In Episode 2, Christine speaks to Nicole Graham, an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School and an expert in private property rights and the environmental regulation of land use practices. Nicole explains why in order to heal our Country we must acknowledge the fundamental flaws in Australia’s dominant model of property – a property regime, she says, that regulates lands and waters, without taking into account the quality, health, or specificity of those landscapes and waterscapes. From the Murray Darling, to the catastrophic decline of the Great Barrier Reef, Nicole underscores the urgent and highly visible need to learn from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander property regimes, moving away from an abstract land law system, towards a system that integrates land ownership with land use responsibilities. Find out more about The Heal Country Podcast Series here.Timestamps 00:00 Introduction - Christine Winter 02:18 Western Abstract Understandings of Country 15:16 Diagnosing the Problems with Australian Land Law 21:07 Attaching Responsibilities to Rights of Title 30:33 Rights of Nature 41:20 Where is the Love (of Country) Speakers Associate Professor Nicole Graham, University of Sydney Law School Dr Christine Winter, Sydney Environment Institute Image by Hypervision Creative, via Shutterstock 561255421 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.