Abstract
Every year, a small group of Little Penguins returns to breed on the rocky shoreline of Manly, at the entrance of Sydney’s harbor. They do so despite the seawalls and other obstacles that trammel access to their breeding places and times. Drawing on phenomenological accounts of responsivity in a legal register, I argue that the penguins’ struggle to breed is a struggle for intergenerational justice and explore how and why their crossing the shoreline at Manly prefigures a justice to come for more-than-human collectives – or not.