Virginia Marshall

Virginia (Wiradjuri Nyemba) is a practicing Lawyer/Educator & Writer. She is the Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow with the Schools of Regulation & Global Governance and the Fenner School of the Environment & Society of the Australian National University. Virginia’s seminal book on Aboriginal water rights, ‘Overturning Aqua Nullius’ with a foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby, was integral to the Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission 2019 in its understanding of Aboriginal water issues and ontologies. Recognised as a Distinguished Woman Scholar by the University of Victoria Canada BC and Expert Member for Water to the World Economic Forum.