NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF MELBOURNE'S SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION
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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF MELBOURNE'S SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION 🍩
The Parramatta River is swimmable again. What can Melbourne learn from this Sydney success story?
This year marks the tenth anniversary of a group of actors coming together to make Sydney’s Parramatta River swimmable again. Swimmable Birrarung Lead Convenor Charity Mosienyane spoke with one of the Parramatta project’s leads, Sarah Holland-Clift, about what our own river-healing initiative could learn from this Sydney success story.
The Swimmable Birrarung project just had a media moment. So what?
ICYMI: the Swimmable Birrarung project recently found itself in the throes of a national media frenzy. From breakfast television to the pages of national mastheads – this community-led project was thrust into the spotlight with all the excitement, speculation and skepticism that comes with it. So how did we get here, and what does it all mean?
Six cities that made urban swimming the norm (and prove Melbourne can too)
A Swimmable Birrarung by 2030 might be Wildly Ambitious, but look a little further afield and you’ll find plenty of cities that have developed strong urban swimming cultures, despite the (systemic) odds.
“An unbelievable moment”: Inside the ambitious project to make the birrarung swimmable again
Since forming in 2020, Regen Melbourne and a committed team of researchers, environmental advocates, Indigenous elders, engineers, entrepreneurs and environmentalists have been hatching a plan to make Melbourne’s Birrarung (Yarra) River swimmable. Now they’re ready to put all that research into action.
Celebrate, connect and care at Birrarung Riverfest
A one-month festival to connect people to the life-force of the Birrarung.
Our Systems Finance approach
Navigating the possibilities for a systems finance approach in service of a Swimmable Birrarung.
Reflections on a Swimmable Birrarung
6 months of listening to and learning from the river.