Vienna, for now · Australia, November 2027
I'm an Australian environmental law graduate with a background in critical-care nursing, military service, and a working trade in craft. My focus: rights of nature, ecological restoration markets, and how communities belong to the places they live — argued in practice, examined in writing at WildLight.
Different trainings, one orientation: understanding what living systems need — then defending them in law, mending them in practice, and making the tools the work requires.
Juris Doctor · Macquarie
Graduated 2025 with a major in environmental law and highest achievement in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development. Now completing Practical Legal Training toward admission, with a working focus on rights of nature, carbon and biodiversity markets, and Australia's Nature Repair framework.
One discipline · Two scales
Five years leading emergency teams at Cairns Hospital taught what care actually requires: attention, patience, and staying with what's damaged until it mends. The same discipline now extends to a different patient — degraded land and the communities that depend on it — carried alongside six peer-reviewed publications in global health.
Made for the life · By hand
People who lived close to the land made what the life required — purpose-built, repairable, at the scale of one pair of hands rather than an industrial run. My trade-trained work in canvas and leather sits in that lineage: swags, saddlebags and tool rolls designed for the country they'll be carried through, and mended rather than replaced.
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Essays and photography on ecological belonging, rights of nature, and the working landscapes of Australia — thinking in public at the intersection of law, land and care.
Published work lives at WildLight.
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WildLight runs in two registers: long-form essays on rights of nature, restoration and the road home to Australia, and shorter fieldnotes from the bench and the trail. Subscribe to follow both.
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JD completed 2025. Practical Legal Training underway — Planning & Environmental and Administrative Law electives — with admission to follow.
AHPRA re-entry groundwork from Vienna, ahead of supervised clinical hours on return to Australia.
Building a practice of making my own outdoor, adventure and work gear — canvas soft goods now, working toward traditional Australian saddlery, sewn on a Singer 4423.
More coming to WildLight, Substack and beyond soon. Stay tuned.