Reader\'s Digest Australia & New Zealand - June 2018

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138 | June• 2018

COMPILED BY TIM HULSE

Mountain Gets People Rights

N

ew Zealand’s Mount

Taranaki has been granted

thesamelegalrightsasa

person. And in acknowledgement

of their relationship with the

mountain, which they regard as an

“ITISABOUTTHEFUNDAMENTAL

RIGHTOFARTISTSTOEXPRESS

THEMSELVES FREELY.”

Luca Bergamo, Rome’s deputy mayor, on the decision to

revokethebanishmentofthepoetOvidfromRometo

present-day Romania by Emperor Augustus after 2000 years.

equal, eight local Maori tribes will

share its guardianship. Its new

status gives the mountain legal

protection, and means that

harmingitisthesame as harming

one of the tribes.