As reforms to save聽rivers are being debated in the Senate, First Nations elders are calling for their water rights to be enshrined in law. Tracey Carpenter reports.
Water For Rivers
The campaign for fair聽water flow and better monitoring and regulation in the Murray Darling Basin Plan has to continue, argues Tracey Carpenter.
The second Darling/Baaka River convoy to highlight unsustainable water-sharing plans and ungoverned water-trading practices was organised in early May. Mark Merritt reports.
Communities and farmers say the billions being allocated on raising dam walls is not a 鈥渟olution鈥 to the latest drought or to long-term climate change. Tracey Carpenter reports.
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.
Baakindji woman and water activist Leah Ebsworth has pleaded not guilty to charges arising from a protest on the bridge earlier this year, reports Paul Oboohov.
A new ACCC report has identified major weaknesses in the water market, but recommends more of the same, reports Tracey Carpenter.
91自拍论坛鈥檚 Rachel Evans asked a number of environmental activists about the ongoing issues and organising despite the COVID-19 lockdown.
A new grassroots group, Water for Rivers, has been set up in Newcastle with the aim of raising awareness about the causes of about the dire situation in the Murray Darling Basin and helping to bring life back to the rivers.
Muruwari and Budjiti man Bruce Shillingsworth appeared on the ABC鈥檚 Q&A program on October 28, but not as a panellist. He was allowed to be a part of the audience, but only after what he described as a 鈥渟truggle鈥. The show, ostensibly about 鈥溾, did not include a single First Nations activist.
鈥淭he problem is mismanagement of the Barwon-Darling rivers鈥 activist Fleur Thompson told the Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Festival bus tour, as it passed through the western New South Wales town of Bourke on September 30.
鈥淭he federal and state governments could step in anytime and fix it, but they don鈥檛 and won鈥檛. To do that the governments would have to admit fault.鈥
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