Climate change – adaptation – resilience – Sydney Law School has a Plan!

In-person event

An event to mark World Disaster Day 2022

Book launch and art exhibition: Professor Mary Crock

Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW, will launch Professor Mary Crock’s (Sydney Law School) first illustrated children’s book and the exhibition of artwork that reflects and extends her academic work on disaster, displacement and resilience.

Hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law and the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, join us to celebrate the publication of True Roo: Little Walla and the Bushfire.

Children are particularly welcome at this event.

About the book True Roo: Little Walla and the Bushfire

Climate change is making Australia increasingly prone to floods and wildfire disasters. In Little Walla a smart, brave wallaroo wakes from a snooze one blistering summer day to find her Mama Roo gone – and bushfire smoke filling the valley. Critically, Walla and her friends have a Fire Plan. The animals overcome barriers, dogs and danger to find Mama Roo. By organizing, co-operating and fire-bombing bird-power, they find safety on the beach.

Little Walla’s story invites discussion about dangers such as bush-fires, climate change and the benefits of planning for emergencies in a way that leaves no-one behind.

Find out more about the book here.

About the author

Professor Mary Crock is Professor of Public Law and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. Her expertise spans immigration, citizenship and refugee law, disability rights, administrative and constitutional law, public international law, particularly human rights and international refugee law, and comparative law. Her publications include leading texts on Australian immigration and refugee law and ground-breaking work on the intersections between disability, migration and human rights. Her research has been cited frequently in Australia’s Federal Courts and High Court and she has given evidence before many parliamentary hearings in Australia, serving as adviser to the Australian Senate (Inquiry into Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program, 2000); consultant to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (on immigration detention); and consultant to the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse (on children in immigration detention).

Monday 17 October, 6-7.30pm

This event is proudly co-presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law and the Australian Centre for Environmental Law.

Photography credit: Collin Gelena Sinik. Cover artwork: Mary Crock.