Protecting the Rights of Future Generations

Professor Susan Harris Rimmer is the founder of the EveryGen Network, a co-founder of the Intergenerational Fairness Coalition and a board member of the youth-led organisation Foundations for Tomorrow.

Read more here: https://news.griffith.edu.au/2023/05/09/everygen-program-calls-for-a-future-generations-act-in-australia/

EveryGen’s mission is to amplify the voices of current and future generations and highlight the long-term impacts of today’s policy decisions.

EveryGen seeks to holds decision makers accountable for Australia’s long-term interests.

EveryGen would like to see an Act of parliament, similar to The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act, that was first adopted in Wales in 2016. A Welsh-style Act would embed the protection of future generations into Australian legislation, making sustainable development the organising principle of government.

www.everygen.online

Read more here: https://www.everygen.online/2023/03/27/time-to-do-time-for-a-fairer-future/

See the highlights of the First National Summit on Intergenerational Fairness:
https://www.orygen.org.au/Orygen-Institute/News-and-Events/National-Summit-on-Intergenerational-Fairness-high