Professor Tasman Crowe:

To chip in there, this is not an area I am familiar with but one of the members of the expert advisory group who is expert was Dr. Mary Dobbs. It is clear this is a subject that is exercising the committee and I can appreciate that because there is a lot to take on. We ended up with quite a lot of discussion while people tried to get their heads around it. Dr. Dobbs was very informative in helping people to understand how that might fit and land.

I would suggest she may be approached for some comment. She was quick to emphasise one thing in particular, which was the fear that nature would suddenly have more rights than people and those rights would prevent people from doing what they want to do. She was quick to point out that nature's rights would not trump the rights we have as people but they would become part of the discussion. That was the gist, as I understood it.