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August 31, 2023

Labor’s new Murray‑Darling Basin Plan deal entrenches water injustice for First Nations

Grant Rigney, Indigenous Knowledge; Erin O'Donnell, The University of Melbourne; Fred Hooper, Indigenous Knowledge, and Lana D. Hartwig, Griffith University

Once again, First Nations in the Murray-Darling Basin have been shortchanged in water reform and shortchanged in the water market. It’s time to listen and actually deliver tangible outcomes.

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February 16, 2021

Water injustice runs deep in Australia. Fixing it means handing control to First Nations

Sue Jackson, Griffith University; Francis Markham, Australian National University; Fred Hooper, Indigenous Knowledge; Grant Rigney, Indigenous Knowledge; Lana D. Hartwig, Griffith University, and Rene Woods, Indigenous Knowledge

First Nations people have almost no say in how water is used in Australia. The Productivity Commission’s latest report does little to address that.

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July 24, 2020

Australia has an ugly legacy of denying water rights to Aboriginal people. Not much has changed

Lana D. Hartwig, Griffith University; Natalie Osborne, Griffith University, and Sue Jackson, Griffith University

Across the NSW portion of the Murray-Darling Basin, Aboriginal people make up almost 10% of the population. Yet they hold a mere 0.2% of all available surface water.

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