After the Rubble: Mobilising a City
When the smoke arrived along the Birrarung Yarra River, so did the beginnings of Regen Melbourne.
In the final days of 2019, Melbourne was confronted with the devastating impacts of climate change in the form of thick smoke that blanketed our city – the result of unprecedented bushfires raging across large parts of the continent, including East Gippsland.
This apocalyptic experience of the Black Summer bushfires shook our understanding of Melbourne as a safe place, and brought the climate emergency directly to our doorsteps.
“How are we as a society investing, stepping up and stepping forward to these disruptions that will continually impact on the world?”
N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs, senior elder Boon Wurrung,,
Weeks later, news of a deadly novel virus began to
