Renegade Economists Show 413
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Show Notes
Bioprospecting our future: Prof Natalie Stoianoff (UTS, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the Director of the Intellectual Property Program) discusses the legal side to pharmaceutical efforts to privatise nature. Then Anne Poelina, indigenous elder from the Kimberly, discusses bioprospecting amidst the need for earth rights and geoparks.
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