Articles by Anne Poelina
- Profile
- Dr Anne Poelina is Chair of Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, and a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Custodian from the Mardoowarra/Martuwarra, Lower Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of WA. A Peter Cullen Fellow (2011) awarded Laureate Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva) (2017) and recent Board and Councillor with the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with Notre Dame University Broome. Her current work promotes entrepreneurial ‘New Economy’ opportunities for Indigenous people in relation to green collar jobs in diverse, science, culture, heritage and conservation economies. Dr Poelina promotes the need to include traditional ecological knowledge, First Law and the rights of nature to the solutions for planetary health and wellbeing. See website: www.majala.com.au and or email majala@wn.com.au.
Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2022: Volume Three
Sustainable Futures, a view from Martuwarra
Under First Law, Warloongarriy Law, the law for Martuwarra, Fitzroy River, we have a law of obligation, a duty of care and love to protect Martuwarra’s right to live and flow. [...]
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Balginjirr “A Special Place On Our Home River Country”!
We are pleased to share with you this incredible poem by Dr. Anne Poelina, part of the Green Institute Report ‘Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporatations and Nature’. I came home to our river country, our place… our space… today. I stood at your grave site and recall the first night when I came back to my mother’s land, and now I... Read More
