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  1. Labor needs to move on Murray-Darling Basin water protection

    Nations' water knowledge and rights have been ignored. Meanwhile, the labyrinthine workings of the water ... the most powerful and well-resourced leaves small farmers, First Nations communities, plants, animals ... water budget in crisis. Aboriginal communities along the Darling/Baaka, with few rights for cultural ...

  2. NSW government fails to privatise floodwaters a third time

    communities and the environment downstream would get their share. Labor, Greens, Justin Field and the Animal ... at this 鈥斅爐o work with communities right across the basin, irrigators in the south, floodplain ...

  3. Probing the wounds of a scarred country

    Charles Sturt and Thomas Mitchell, who denied the rights of the original inhabitants and the natural ... Any native grass-eating animals, even birds as well as carnivorous dingoes and wedge tailed eagles, ... of powerful landowners who have swept up the land holdings and water rights with them. Unlike many ...

  4. NSW government forced back to drawing board on floodplain harvesting

    irrigators. But she was defeated by Labor; the Greens; Shooters, Fishers and Farmers; the Animal Justice ... floodplain harvesting property rights could expose the public purse to multi-million-dollar compensation ... claims.聽 鈥淚ssuing permanent property rights to irrigators is a huge transfer of public wealth that should ...

  5. Gundungurra Traditional Owners: 鈥榃arragamba Dam project must be stopped鈥

    kids can see the rocks that are shaped like the animals or the drawings on the rocks.聽It鈥檚 a whole ... or not we go, and聽then聽they send escorts,鈥 Brown said. 鈥Right now, no-one鈥檚 got access.鈥 鈥淭he ... Foundation聽for Wildnerness, Landcare groups and people fighting for plants, animals, for water quality, and us ...

  6. Water activists demand an end to corporate water theft

    river systems, wetlands and lakes. This has resulted in the devastation of our plants and animals, the ... Custodians, who have the lawful rights and responsibilities for this water.聽聽 During this corporatisation of ...