Barkindji woman Leah Ebsworth has聽been聽charged with聽not moving off a聽bridge when ordered聽and聽assaulting a public officer聽with聽water, reports Paul Oboohov.
Wilcannia
鈥淲e聽have to rely on bottled water to bathe聽our聽babies.聽There is no fresh water to drink,鈥 explained local Wilcannia Aboriginal elder Brendan Adams. "We are all living in Third World conditions.鈥
鈥淚t seems that towns in western New South Wales are being shut down and nobody is listening,鈥 local resident Mark Merritt told 91自拍论坛 Weekly on the banks of a non-existent river.
Bruce Shillingsworth, the Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Festival tour organiser, said on October 1 that First Nations people need to be given back the power to make key decisions about water flow and the rivers.