Past Events

This page contains details about all of AELA's past events.  Please click on the links below to see a copy of presentations, notes, flyers and programs for any of the events.  If there are any past events you're interested in receiving further information about, please email us at: events@earthlaws.org.au

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2023 NENA Conference

Start date: November 17, 2023
End date: November 19, 2023
All-day event
Location: Ann Harding Centre, Canberra, ACT

For more information, visit the NENA website.

Integral Ecology – Faith and Environment

Date: September 29, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Making ecocide a crime – international update

Date: September 28, 2023
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

2023 Rights of Nature Symposium

Date: September 28, 2023
Time: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Recognising the Right in Australia

Date: September 26, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Nature, Our Medicine: How the Natural World Sustains Us

Date: September 25, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Sublime Toxics with Christopher Wright

Date: September 22, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023
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Women’s Environmental Leadership in Australia

Date: September 19, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Climate change update with Brendan Mackey

Date: September 18, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The future of ecological economics

Date: September 14, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: technological, socioeconomic and political change

Date: September 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Designing Regenerative Cultures – with Daniel Christian Wahl in conversation with Michelle Maloney

Date: September 13, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Degrowth in Australia – What’s Possible?

Date: September 12, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Indigenous philosophy and ‘Relationist Economics’ with Mary Graham

Date: September 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

The Work that Reconnects

Date: September 8, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Decolonising our thinking, feelings, and actions

Date: September 7, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Deep listening to nature – with Andrew Skeoch

Date: September 6, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Join us as Andrew Skeoch shares his observations from decades of making sound recordings of nature. Andrew will discuss his recent book - "Deep Listening to Nature" - in which he explores our relationship with nature and what we can learn from listening to the wondrous communications within the natural world.

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The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: how to make it operational and effective

Date: September 5, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Join us for a special presentation by the Honourable Justice Brian J Preston, Chief Judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Judge Preston will share insights into how legal concepts can be turned into reality, and how we can operationalise a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

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Earth Laws Month 2023

Start date: September 1, 2023
End date: September 30, 2023
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Earth Laws Month 2023

Welcome to Earth Laws Month! AELA will again be hosting a huge month of events throughout September 2023 - webinars, public lectures, workshops, virtual art exhibitions and more - to explore and celebrate our relationship with the living world.

See all the events here!

AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Jude Roberts and Helen Hardess

Date: August 8, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Trends in Climate Litigation in Australia – with Justice Brian Preston

Date: June 27, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Join us for an important discussion with Justice Preston, Chief Judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court, about current trends in climate litigation in Australia.

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Carbon and Nature Offsets: In the Market for Ecocide?

Date: May 18, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Caring for our oceans – exploring cultural connections and kinship with whales

Date: May 10, 2023
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Ocean Rights and Kinship Alliance (ORKA)

Please join ORKA (the Ocean Rights and Kinship Alliance) for our 2023 webinar series, which explores our connections and kinship with the ocean and our interconnected community of marine life.

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Repairing our relationship with rivers: the role of law, with Dr Erin O’Donnell – Earth Laws Webinar Series

Date: May 4, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Since 2017, rivers around the world have experienced a profound transformation in law: they have become legal persons and/or living entities. This alchemical transfiguration from legal object to legal subject renders the river uniquely visible, and legible, to the law in ways it has not been before, and often brings with it new legal rights and powers.

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Protecting Future Generations – with Sophie Howe, former Welsh Future Generations Commissioner

Date: April 21, 2023
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Join us for a fascinating webinar and inspiring conversation with Sophie Howe, outgoing Future Generations Commissioner in Wales.

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The Well-being of Future Generations Act was passed by the Government of Wales in 2015 and gave the government the mandate and legal obligation to improve social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being in Wales.

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AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Merete Megarrity and Renata Buziak

Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

AELA's Earth Arts program connects with artists and creatives around Australia, and in 2023/2024 we're inviting amazing artists to share stories about their work and what inspires them.

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Should the Moon have legal rights?

Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Corporations and governments around the world are making plans to return to the Moon, and not just to visit our celestial neighbour, but to mine its minerals, extract its water and create permanent settlements for further space exploration.

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Caring for our Oceans – exploring cultural connections and kinship with whales

Date: March 9, 2023
Time: 11:00 am (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Please join ORKA (the Ocean Rights and Kinship Alliance) for our 2023 webinar series, which explores our connections and kinship with the ocean and our interconnected community of marine life.

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AELA Education: Introduction to Earth Laws 2023

Start date: February 7, 2023
End date: February 28, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

4 week ONLINE course, from 7th to 28th February, 2023

Live classes: 4pm - 6pm Brisbane Time [AEST]
5pm - 7pm [AEDT] || 4:30pm - 6:30pm [ACDT] || 2pm - 4pm [AWST]

For more information click here

Online Workshop: Planetary Boundaries with Prof Will Steffen

Date: March 29, 2022
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 2 hour workshop
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Decolonising Our Thinking and Actions

Date: May 13, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 2 hour workshop
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Connecting to Place, Caring for Country – May 2022

Date: May 14, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Future Dreaming Australia

This event was not recorded.

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Doughnut Economics: Global Action Lab Update

Date: May 16, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 90 minute webinar
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Indigenous Philosophy and the Relationist Ethos

Date: June 9, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 90-minute workshop
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

How to Use the Greenprints Approach

Date: June 23, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 90-minute workshop
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

AELA Education: Earth Centred Futures 2022

Start date: July 12, 2022
End date: August 30, 2022
Location: Online (via Zoom)

8 week ONLINE course, from 12 July to 30 August, 2022

Live classes will be held on Tuesdays from 5pm to 7pm (AEST)

For more information, click here

Introduction to Scenario Planning with Dr Kiah Smith

Date: July 14, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 2 hour workshop
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Connecting to Place, Caring for Country – July 2022

Date: July 16, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Future Dreaming Australia

This event was not recorded.

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Space Exploration 2022

Start date: July 19, 2022
End date: July 21, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm (AEST)

What’s really happening in the world of space exploration? Should we be worried about the impacts of mining and human settlements on the Moon? Should the Moon be recognised as a legal entity? Will we soon be living on Mars? What impact will any of this have on humans and life on Earth? What obligations do human beings have, to care for and protect our cosmic neighbours? Who's making these decisions, and should more people have a say over the governance of space exploration?

Watch the recordings here!

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Introduction to Systems Change: Theories and Practice

Date: August 4, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Event Format: 90-minute workshop
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Event series: Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series

Please join the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) and the Greenprints initiative, for a FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP, that will explore the theories and practice of creating systems change.

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Navigating our way in uncertain times

Date: September 1, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

How do we navigate the complexity of our uncertain future?  How do we face into uncertainty with our whole being rather than turning away from it?  What capacities do we need to develop to enable our responsiveness, to shift from ‘strategy and control’ paradigms to participative action? AELA invites you to join Wicked Elephants for an interactive session to explore these issues. We’ll share some embodied practices that we can take into our lives to enable us to be responsive, flexible and allow emergence.

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Connecting to Place, Caring for Country – September 2022

Date: September 10, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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Event series: Future Dreaming Australia

Are Sustainable Futures Still Possible?

Date: November 17, 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

As we face the uncertainties of a climate changing world, do we still have time to build a sustainable future?

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Mapping the Social Ecology of your Community

Date: December 1, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Join us for an important workshop about how to identify and connect with people in your community, in order to build collaborative processes. This workshop will be extremely valuable for people participating in Greenprints and any other collaborative projects that need a wide range of people included in community initiatives.

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Earth Laws Month 2022

During September 2022, AELA hosted Earth Laws Month, a huge month of events - webinars, public lectures, workshops, virtual art exhibitions and more - to explore and celebrate our relationship with the living world.

Earth Laws Month EVENT RECORDINGS

Click on the Event Titles below to see more information and the video recording from each event, or view the events in calendar layout on the Earth Laws Month calendar page.

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Event Themes

Earth Laws and Governance
Economics for the Earth
Sciences: Social, Life & Earth
Earth Education

Greenprints Program
First Nations Peoples, Caring for Country
Arts and Creativity

2021 Earth Laws Webinar Series

Earth Systems Law and the Earth Condominium Concept

Date: March 17, 2021
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Making ecocide a crime: international update with Jojo Mehta, Stop Ecocide International

Date: April 14, 2021
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

An Introduction to Indigenous First Laws with Dr Anne Poelina

Date: May 12, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

An Introduction to Indigenous First Laws with Dr Anne Poelina, Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (MFRC)(Kimberley Region, WA).

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Exploring River Rights, with Dr Erin O’Donnell

Date: June 1, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Caring for Country, Caring for Each Other: Celebrating World Localisation Day in Australia

Date: June 14, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Climate Conscious Lawyering

Date: July 1, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

With Justice Preston, Chief Justice of the NSW Land and Environment Court

How Greenprints can help us create Earth-centred governance

Date: November 18, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Creating Ecocide Laws in Australia: A roundtable with the Ecocide Laws Australia working group

Date: November 24, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Featuring Dr Michelle Maloney, Dr Gwynn MacCarrick, Professor Danielle Celermajer, Professor Anthony Burke and Professor Rob White.

AELA Online Workshops "Introduction to Rights of Nature and Earth Laws" held on Saturdays, from 11am to 1pm AEST

  • Visit our Humanitix booking page, for all the details about how to book into one of our repeat workshops:
    • Sat 19 June
    • Sat 17 July
    • Sat 14 August
    • Sat 16 October
    • More workshops will be held in 2022!

AELA/Future Dreaming online workshops 'Caring for Country, Caring for Kin' - April to October 2021

AELA and Future Dreaming are hosting a range of fantastic online events in 2021 that explore Indigenous and non-indigenous ecological knowledge, please visit Future Dreaming's webpage here

Greenprints: Regenerative Systems, Bioregional Governance and Earth Democracy

  • 29/30 July - Greenprints and Regen Brisbane - 2 Day Symposium in Brisbane on 29 and 30 July 2021
  • 18 November - Webinar about Greenprints and the Australian Network for Ecocentric Communities (see our webinar details above)

AELA is a proud supporter and co-organiser of: Wellbeing Economy Week - 1-7 November, including: NENA's 2021 Annual Conference - "Building a Wellbeing Economy for Australia" - New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Annual

For more information - visit NENA's website here and sign up to NENA's email list for updates

  • March 20-22, 2020 - Byron Bay, NSW - AELA is presenting at - "Going Local: Hope in a Time of Crisis", 3 Day Conference, Byron Bay NSW. Co-organisers: 'The Economics of Happiness/Local Futures' and the New Economy Network Australia
  • April 18, 2020 - ONLINE/WEBINAR- 12noon to 4pm - "Our Place: Getting to Know our Local Bioregion (Sunshine Coast)", part of the GreenPrints Series. Visit the event webpage for all the details, and how to book your ticket.
  • April - July 2020 - Special Online Workshop Series: "Connecting to Place, Caring for Country" - co-hosted by AELA and Future Dreaming Australia. Each online workshop will be held from 1pm to 4.30pm AEST, on the following dates:
    • Saturday 25 April
    • Tuesday 26 May
    • Saturday 20 June
    • Tuesday 14 July
  • June 16, 2020 - Webinar - The Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA) and the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) are pleased to invite you to our webinar - "The role of the sacred in nurturing ecological law and governance".
  • July 2020 - ONLINE - "Planetary Boundaries: Facing the ecological crisis and living within our limits"
    • AELA Members have FREE access to over 10 hours of recordings from this webinar series, or you can purchase access if you're not yet an AELA member. More details here.

"Voices of Nature 2020", 12 - 17 October, 2020

- Rights of Nature Week, Australia -

  • November 20-22, 2020 - Newcastle - New Economy Network Australia Annual Conference, supported by AELA

  • March 19 - 28 - Citizens' Inquiry into the Health of the Darling River and Menindee Lakes, a Special Hearing of the Australian Peoples' Tribunal for Community and Nature's Rights, will be held in far western NSW. Find more details on the AELA website or visit the dedicated Australian Peoples' Tribunal website.
  • April 12 -13 - Bioregional governance workshops, East Gippsland. See more details on the GreenPrints page or view the event flyer.
  • April 27 - Earth Laws and Rights of Nature workshop, Sunshine Coast.
  • July 25 - Human Rights and Nature's Rights - Public Seminar, 6pm - 8pm, Griffith University Southbank Campus. Speakers: Dr Michelle Maloney, Professor David Takacs, Dr Kristen Lyons, UQ and Revel Pointon, EDO Qld. Click here for copies of the presentations.
  • August 24 - 'One Ocean' Symposium, New York, NY USA. For details, see the Australian Centre for the Rights of Nature (ACRN) webpage

Western Australian events - 29 September to 7 October 2019

Margaret River

  • September 29 - Wongi Wooditjup Bilya - Talking Margaret River, 5.30pm at the Old Church, Community Resource Centre, Tunbridge Street, Margaret River.
  • AELA's National Convenor, Dr Michelle Maloney, is a guest speaker at this World Rivers Day Celebration with the Undalup People and other local community groups.
  • October 1 - Margaret River, Afternoon workshop (1-4pm) - "Rethinking sustainability: exploring bioregional governance".
  • October 1 - Margaret River, Evening seminar (6-7.30pm)- "Rethinking economics, ecology and local governance in the 21st Century".

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Perth

  • October 3 - WA NRM and Coastal Conference, Perth - Dr Michelle Maloney will be giving a presentation about Rights of Nature and a workshop about Bioregional Governance
  • October 5- Perth, Afternoon workshop (1-4pm): "Rethinking sustainability: biodiversity, economics and governance".
  • October 4-7 - Co-sponsor: Annual Conference, New Economy Network Australia (NENA) - to be held in Perth.
  • November 3 - Rethinking Sustainability - Afternoon workshop, A&I Hall, 3 Station Street BANGALOW NSW
  • November 7, 8 & 11,12,13 - 5 day intensive Earth jurisprudence course, Griffith University Law School, Brisbane.
  • November 21 - Peace and Stability Dialogue Series: Symposium - a one-day symposium at the University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane. See the Dialogue Series page for more details.
  • November 25-26 - ANZSEE Conference "Ecological Economics - Now and in the Future", RMIT, Melbourne. See the ANZSEE website for all the details.
  • November 28 - 29 – "Inspiring Earth Ethics" Conference, co-hosted with the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. See the Earth Ethics Conference page for more information, including the draft program and registration.

  • March 16 – Public Seminar, Blue Mountains, NSW: "Earth Laws and Rights of Nature". See more information or download the event flyer.
  • May 19-20 – RenewFest, Mullumbimby, NSW.  AELA is hosting the Biodiversity stream at this fantastic festival.  Visit the Renew Fest website.
  • June 15-18 – Earth Arts Creatives Retreat, Chenrezig Buddhist Institute, Sunshine Coast Queensland.  More information visit our AELA Earth Arts website.
  • July 14-15 – North Queensland New Economy Symposium, Magnetic Island - details are available on the NENA website.
  • August 25 – Wild Law Seminar - Cooroora Institute, Sunshine CoastThis lively one day interactive workshop gives participants the opportunity to explore developments in wild laws and earth jurisprudence in Australia, and around thew world, with Dr Michelle Maloney.
  • October 19-21 – Annual Conference, New Economy Network Australia (NENA), Melbourne.
    AELA is pleased to be auspicing  NENA and co-hosting the 2018 Annual Conference, at William Angliss Institute from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st October.  Please visit the NENA website for all the details.

RONA18 – Rights of Nature Australia 2018

In October 2018, the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) is hosting Rights of Nature Australia 2018 (RONA18), a series of connected events that explore and promote the rights of nature to exist, thrive and evolve.  RONA18 involves a week of events in Brisbane from 23-28 October, as well as regional arts events around Australia during the month of October. The Rights of Nature Week of Events in Brisbane includes: a free public lecture, a one day community workshop, evening events and talks at the Rights of Nature National Art Exhibition, a two day International Symposium and a Peoples Tribunal.

Click here to read the full  RONA18 10 PAGE PROGRAM OF EVENTS.

The program includes the following:

  • 26 to 30 November 2018One-week intensive course, Griffith University Law School: "Wild Law: The Theory and Practice of Earth Jurisprudence". Visit our Facebook event page for more information.
    Venue: Griffith University Nathan Campus, Nathan, Brisbane

  • 23rd and 24th November, 2017, Brisbane - INSPIRING EARTH ETHICS: LINKING VALUES AND ACTION, National Conference. This conference will bring together people working in the fields of ethics, indigenous knowledge systems, environmental education/science, eco-psychology, deep ecology, the arts and other fields, to explore practical ways to build Earth-centred ethics in modern societies. For more information, please click here.
  • November 27 to December 1st, 2017, 1 week Summer Intensive Course. Griffith University Law School: "Wild law: the theory and practice of Earth jurisprudence".  Please click here for more information.
  • Brisbane – 21 November 2017, AELA and QUT
  • Sydney – 9 November 2017, AELA, UTS and UNSW
  • Gold Coast – 30 August 2017, co-hosted with Southern Cross University
    • Find more information about the Gold Coast ELSN event, including audio-recordings of the presentations by Judge Preston, Chief Justice of the NSW Land and Environment Court and Adjunct Professor, Mary Graham, First Nations Elder. Find out more about the Exploring the Legal Status of Nature program.
  • Melbourne – 11 August 2017, AELA and CREEL/Melbourne Law School

  • Monday 5th December to Friday 9th December, Summer Intensive Course, Griffith University Law School: "Wild law: the theory and practice of Earth jurisprudence".  Please click here for more information.
  • Saturday 3rd December, 4pm to 6pm, Northey Street City Farm, Brisbane "Exploring Indigenous Spirituality". Please click here for the flyer and for the details about how to book your place.
  • 22 October 2016. Rights of Nature Tribunal Australia, held in Brisbane. This one-day citizen's tribunal will hear cases presented by citizens and Earth lawyers concerned about the destruction of ecosystems and the Earth community in Australia.  Australia's RON Tribunal is a Regional Chamber of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal.  For more information, please click here.
  • 20-21 October, AELA Conference, Brisbane.  "The Future of Environmental Law: politics, reform and community activism".  For information about our 2016 Conference, please click here.  For information about our previous conferences, please click here.
  • September/October - RONA16.  To celebrate AELA's Rights of Nature Citizens Tribunal on 22 October (details below), we're hosting a national network of creative events called 'RONA16' (Rights of Nature Australia 2016). Everyone's welcome to get involved.  For more information, please click here.
  • 28th September, Brisbane Powerhouse - Opening Night, Earth Arts Exhibition - 'Plenty'.  This is AELA's major art exhibition in Brisbane, to celebrate RONA16.  More details available soon.
  • 16-17 August, "Building the new economy: enterprise, activism and social change", 2 day forum in Sydney. This conference is being co-hosted by the University of NSW. Please click here for more information.
  • 24th August, "Caring for Country: Learning from First Nations people" - Evening seminar, Avid Reader, West End, Brisbane - 5.30 to 7.30pm.  Please click here for more information and a copy of the flyer.  This seminar is part of AELA's "Future Dreaming" Program, and is a side event to the First Nations Traditional Knowledge Conference, being held in Brisbane from 23-26 August.
  • 8th June, "Earth Laws and the Rights of Nature - the work of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance" - Half day workshop at The Archer, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.  Contact AELA for more information.
  • 27th May, "Let's Talk About Consumption", free 1 day workshop in Adelaide.  Please click here for the program and information about how to book your place.  For information about AELA's national workshop and publication series please click here.
  • 26th May, Adelaide - Earth Arts meet-up, 6.30pm-7.30pm.  Join us for a chat about 'RONA16' - AELA's national network of creative events to celebrate the Rights of Nature.  Please email for the meet up details: creative@earthlaws.org.au
  • 26th May, "Building the Sharing Economy in South Australia", afternoon workshop in Adelaide (2pm to 5pm). Please click here for a copy of the flyer.
  • 20th May, "Exploring Earth Laws, Earth Democracy and the Rights of Nature" - free evening seminar in Toowoomba, Queensland (7pm to 8.30pm). For further information, please click here.
  • 14 May, Brisbane "A Walk With A Difference in Toohey Forest" - morning bushwalk. For more information, please click here. This bush walk was part of our 'Exploring Ecospirituality' series and was run by WiseEarth Education and AELA.
  • 6th March, "Exploring Earth Laws, Earth Democracy and the Rights of Nature", free workshop in Orbost, Victoria.  For further information please click here for the flyer.
  • 4 March, "Let's Talk About Consumption" - 1 day workshop, Melbourne - Room 104, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street. For information about this workshop, including the full program, please click here.  For information about AELA's national workshop and publication series please click here.
  • 13-15 November, AELA's "Worker's Retreat" - Sunshine Coast, Queensland.  From Friday 13 to Sunday 15th November, AELA hosted a retreat for our fabulous volunteers. For more information, please email: aela@earthlaws.org.au
  • 14 November, AELA’s 2015 AGM and Social Day, Chenrezig Buddhist Institute, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.   For information about the AGM, including the program, please click here.
  • Tuesday 27 October, Brisbane, 6pm - Griffith University - The significance of the Pope's Encyclical. Please click here for information about the event.
  • 5th September, Blue Mountains - Cosmic Walk, co-hosted by Pagaian Cosmology. Please click here for further information.
  • Thursday 10th September, Adelaide - AELA hosted a multi-disciplinary workshop at the 2015 Sustainable Engineers Conference called "The role of engineers in creating regulations for a sustainable future". For more information about the SENG Conference, please click here and for more information about AELA's workshop at the Conference, please email aela@earthlaws.org.au
  • Friday 28 August - "Let's Talk About Consumption" - 1 Day Workshop in Brisbane.  For an overview of the workshop, and a copy of all the powerpoint presentations from the day please click here
  • Thursday 23rd July, Sydney - Building the Sharing Economy in NSW - Half Day Workshop.  This free half day workshop was held at the Brown Street Community Hall, Newtown, Sydney from 1pm to 5pm. Please click here for a copy of the flyer and program.
  • Friday 24th July, Sydney - Sharing Law Roundtable.  This free round table discussion was held in the Law School Board Room, Room 203, UNSW Law School, Sydney, from 9.30am to 12.30pm.  Please click here for a copy of the flyer .  FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT AELA'S SHARING LAW WORK, PLEASE CLICK HERE
  • Friday 19th June, Sydney - Earth Arts Meet Up - Evening social drinks and discussion. 5.30pm to 7.30pm, Cornerstone Café, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street (cnr Codrington St), Eveleigh NSW 2015
  • Tuesday 23 June, Brisbane - Evening seminar - "Nurturing a Spiritual Approach to Climate Change". This seminar was part of our 'Exploring Ecospirituality' series.  In Brisbane, this series is co-hosted with the Griffith University Centre for Interfaith & Cross Cultural Dialogue, Wise Earth Education and Earthlink.  Please click here for the flyer.
  • Friday 26th June, 2015 , Brisbane - AELA's 2nd Annual "Law and Governance Clinic for Earth Friendly Organisations".  AELA hosted a one day interactive workshop, to help community organisations and social enterprises connect with legal, governance and other support services in Brisbane and South East Queensland.  For a copy of the presentations and notes from the workshop, please click here and please click here for a copy of the flyer for the event.
  • 17 March, FREE Evening Seminar, Brisbane - 'Exploring Ecospirituality' - This event was part of Harmony Week celebrations in Brisbane.  Please click here for the flyer.
  • 6th December, Brisbane - AELA Christmas Party.  Around 60 people came together from 3pm to 6pm at Lock N Load Bistro, West End, for drinks, nibblies and a celebration of 2014. Please click here for more information
  • 11th December, Brisbane - Journey of the Universe: Film Night and Discussion – Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue, Griffith University.  Hosted as part of AELA’s ‘Exploring Ecospirituality’ series.  Please click here for more information
  • 13th December, Workshop Byron Bay – AELA held a community workshop to discuss how community groups can work towards making local laws that assert community and natures rights.  For full details please click here.
  • 12 November, Sydney - Wild Law Judgments Project Workshop, 10am to 1pm, University of New South Wales.  This workshop was open to everyone interested in participating in the Wild Law Judgments writing project, and featured opening remarks by the Honourable Justice Brian Preston SC, Chief Justice of the NSW Land and Environment Court.
  • 20 - 24 November, Community and Nature's Rights workshops and project meetings - Perth, Margaret River and other communities in Western Australia.
  • 22 November, Perth - “Exploring Ecospirituality” Workshop – Join us for this wonderful workshop, featuring local speakers from secular and multi-faith communities in Perth.
  • 9 November 2014 - AELA presentation at Thomas Berry Colloquium, Melbourne
  • 6 November 2014 - Evening seminar, Melbourne - 'Should rivers have legal rights?'
  • 31 October 2014 - Food Justice Symposium, Brisbane (Bridging the divide between urban and rural food justice) - AELA, 'Bridging the Divide' and the Griffith University EcoCentre hosted this important event, bringing farmers, foodies and food movement activists together for critical discussions about the future of our food in Queensland.
  • 23 October 2014 - Earth laws and regional community environmentalism, Byron Bay, NSW - AELA, EDO NSW and Southern Cross University hosted this fascinating afternoon of discussions about Earth laws and regional community activism.
  • 17 October 2014 - Earth laws and governance workshop, Adelaide - AELA co-hosted a morning workshop exploring Earth laws, rights of nature and indigenous Earth governance.  Speakers included representatives from AELA, EDO SA, local indigenous custodians and the University of Adelaide.
  • 15 October 2014 - Rights of Nature Tribunal, Brisbane (Is the Great Barrier Reef a victim of Ecocide?) - AELA hosted Australia's first Rights of Nature Tribunal in Brisbane. This Tribunal was a Regional Chamber of the International Ethics Tribunal for the Rights of Nature, and part of the International 'Earth Rights Days of Action'.
  • 10 October 2014 - Building the Sharing Economy Workshop and Sharing Law Roundtable, Brisbane - AELA hosted two half-day workshops at Southbank.
  • 12 September 2014 - Half day Symposium, Sydney - In September, AELA hosted a half day symposium on “New trends in environmental law and governance” – Keynote Speaker: Judge Preston, Chief Justice of the Land and Environment Court.  For further information about the symposium, please click here for the flyer and program.
  • 25 July 2014 - Exploring Ecospirituality Workshop, Brisbane - In July, AELA co-hosted a workshop with Griffith University’s Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue to explore ecocentrism and ecospirituality from indigenous, Buddhist, Islamic, Pagan, Christian and secular points of view.  100 people joined us for the presentations and the day also featured open space and small group discussions.  For more information, including a copy of the flyer and program, please click here.
  • early July - 7, 8, 9 - Community and nature’s rights workshops – Perth, Margaret River, Jarrahdale - In July, AELA hosted a series of workshops with the Western Australian Forest Alliance (WAFA) investigating the strategies local communities can adopt to block unwanted natural resource exploitation from mining, coal seam gas and forestry.  For more information, including copies of the flyers from each workshop, please click here.
  • 4 July 2014 - AELA’s Law and Governance Clinic, Brisbane - In July, AELA hosted its first “Law and Governance Clinic” for Earth Friendly Organisations in Brisbane.  The session was attended by 85 people from a range of organisations interested in legal business structures, the sharing economy, DGR and other taxation issues for not-for-profit organisations, insurance, legal services in SEQ and conflict management.  Please click here for further information about the Clinic, including copies of the flyer and powerpoint presentations.
  • May 2014 - AELA-Voiceless Seminars - In May, AELA and Voiceless co-hosted a series of seminars in Sydney, Hobart and Brisbane, called ‘Protecting our evolutionary companions: do our laws measure up?”.  The seminars brought together academics, activists, legal  practitioners, students and regulators to explore and discuss the current frameworks and challenges for our legal system to protect the animals that live with us on Earth.  For further information about the three seminars, including copies of the flyers, please click here.
  • April 2014 - Environmental Justice Symposium, Brisbane - In April, AELA and Griffith University’s Urban Research Program hosted a 1 day Environmental Justice Symposium at Griffith University Ecocentre (Nathan).  The aim of the symposium was to bring together academics, activists, legal practitioners, students and regulators, to explore Environmental Justice in Queensland and to identify opportunities for future collaborative projects.  For an overview of the symposium and a copy of the flyer, click here.
  • March 2014 - Polly Higgins 'Ecocide' Lectures - In March, UK Barrister Polly Higgins participated in a series of lectures regarding her campaign to establish 'Ecocide' as a crime.  Polly is also an acclaimed author, she attended lectures in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Byron Bay.  For an overview of her lectures and copy of the flyer click here.
  • February 2014 - Janelle Orsi Lectures and Workshops - In February 2014, AELA, UNSW and Vic EDO hosted Janelle Orsi’s visit to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.  Janelle is a US Attorney and Director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center in California.  She gave lectures and workshops about how to build sustainable communities by supporting the sharing economy, with a particular focus on the role of law in supporting the sharing economy.  An overview of her lectures and workshops, together with copies of PowerPoint presentations, can be found here.
  • 4 & 5 October 2013 - CELDF Workshop, Perth - AELA hosted two events in Perth in early October featuring Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil from the USA’s Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (CELDF).
  • 2 October 2013 - CELDF Public Lecture, Melbourne - AELA and the EDO Victoria hosted a public lecture by Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil from CELDF.  An audio recording of their presentation is available by clicking here (http://www.edovic.org.au/blog/legal-frameworks-rights-nature).
  • 30 September 2013 - CELDF Workshop, Brisbane - AELA hosted a one day workshop in Brisbane, titled ‘Finding New Ways to Protect Our Local Ecosystems: Exploring Community and Nature’s Rights’. The workshop featured Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil from CELDF, Nati Greene from Fundacion Pachamama, Drew Hutton and Annie Kia from the Lock the Gate Alliance and Aidan Ricketts from Southern Cross University.
  • 27-29 September 2013 - Wild Law Conference, Brisbane - AELA hosted Australia’s fourth Wild Law Conference titled ‘Living within our ecological limits: law and governance to nurture the Earth Community’.
  • 18 May 2013 - Workshop, Alice Springs - The Australian Wild Law Alliance and the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) hosted a morning workshop in Alice Springs on Saturday 18th may.  The event was supported by the  Environmental Defender’s Office Northern Territory (EDO NT) and the Law Society NT Public Purposes Trust.
  • 17 May 2013 - Workshop, Darwin - Exploring New Trends in Environmental Law and Governance: Earth Jurisprudence and Rights of Nature.
  • 4 May 2013 - Wild Law & Art/Science Incubator, Sydney - Performing Arts Group “De Quincey and Co”, worked with AELA to host a 1 day workshop in Sydney.  Artists, scientists, producers and experts from a range of different fields met to learn more about Wild Law and discuss the implications of its key ideas and themes to their own work.
  • 2 May 2013 - Wild Law Workshop, Sydney - AELA hosted a Wild Law Workshop in Sydney on Thursday May 2nd, at the University of Sydney.
  • 1 May 2013 - Evening Seminar, Sydney - Evening seminar at the Chapel by the Sea, Bondi Beach titled 'Should Mother Nature have legal rights?'
  • 9 February 2013 - Wild Law and Rights of Nature Seminar, Perth - AELA held a half day public seminar held at the Canning River Environmental Centre.
  • 30 November 2012 - Workshop, Adelaide - A one day Wild Law workshop was held in Adelaide, in partnership with the Environment Defender’s Office South Australia.
  • 23 November 2012 - Environmental Justice Symposium, Brisbane - On 30th November 2012 AELA hosted an Environmental Justice Symposium in Brisbane, in partnership with the Queensland Environmental Defender’s Office (Qld EDO) and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
  • 17 August 2012 - Workshop, Melbourne - A one day Wild Law workshop was held in Melbourne, in partnership with the Environment Defender’s Office Victoria.
  • September 2011 - Wild Law Conference, Brisbane - AELA hosted Australia’s Third Wild Law Conference titled 'Earth Jurisprudence: building theory and practice' at Griffith University.
  • October 2010 - Wild Law Conference, Wollongong - The second Australian conference on Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence was organised in 2010 as a dialogue between the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the University of Wollongong.
  • September 2009 - Wild Law Conference, Adelaide - Participants from each state and territory in Australia gathered in the Adelaide Hills for Australia’s first conference on Wild Law.