Recognising Aboriginal legal rights to access and manage water is the key to addressing the “unfolding ecological and cultural disaster on the Murray-Darling”, Indigenous nations of the river system say.
“With our rivers facing ecological collapse and our communities on the brink of survival, there is no other option left,” the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) chair, Rene Woods, said.
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Recognising Aboriginal legal rights to access and manage water is the key to addressing the “unfolding ecological and cultural disaster on the Murray-Darling”, Indigenous nations of the river system say.
“With our rivers facing ecological collapse and our communities on the brink of survival, there is no other option left,” the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) chair, Rene Woods, said.