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Australia: Aboriginal peoples barely own a drop of water in the vast Murray-Darling Basin water mark

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Australlia: 'Aboriginal peoples barely own a drop of water in the vast Murray-Darling Basin water market, and First Nations groups say government inaction is denying their Indigenous rights to use the resource for environmental, social and economic purposes.

The Murray-Darling Basin water market is worth more than $16 billion, but Aboriginal organisations in NSW own just $16 million in water assets, or 0.1 per cent, according to a study from Griffith University – and First Nations groups own very little else in other states.

The federal government set aside $40 million two-and-a-half years ago to purchase water rights for Aboriginal peoples across the basin, to be split evenly between the north and south, but is yet to invest any of the money, frustrating First Nations advocates.'
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Australlia: 'Aboriginal peoples barely own a drop of water in the vast Murray-Darling Basin water market, and First Nations groups say government inaction is denying their Indigenous rights to use the resource for environmental, social and economic purposes.

The Murray-Darling Basin water market is worth more than $16 billion, but Aboriginal organisations in NSW own just $16 million in water assets, or 0.1 per cent, according to a study from Griffith University – and First Nations groups own very little else in other states.

The federal government set aside $40 million two-and-a-half years ago to purchase water rights for Aboriginal peoples across the basin, to be split evenly between the north and south, but is yet to invest any of the money, frustrating First Nations advocates.'
And there's also been drought conditions in some other areas worldwide, while some other areas have been hit hard with too much rain at times.

BTW, ever see the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence", which is a true story about three Aboriginal children trying to flee a government boarding school to break them of their tradition? Great movie.
 

pearl

Well-Known Member
BTW, ever see the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence", which is a true story about three Aboriginal children trying to flee a government boarding school to break them of their tradition? Great movie.

I haven't seen the movie, but one could easily substitute Native American experience for the Aborigines.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
I haven't seen the movie, but one could easily substitute Native American experience for the Aborigines.
Yep, and as a Me'tis this affected my own ancestry but, fortunately, not me. My own maternal grandfather, who I was very close to, denied the fact that his father was a Me'tis (half French & half Canadian Cree). When I asked him why he denied it, his response was "If you grew up when and where I lived, you would understand" [words like that].

Two of my other grandparents also were Me'tis but never talked about it. With one of them, we have a tin-type picture of my great grandfather taken with his Pawnee wife taken in the mid-1800's. My other one was a French trapper for Fort Detroit who took on a Huron "wife" [they didn't have a legal marriage, which was not unusual] in the early to mid-1700's.
 

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
And there's also been drought conditions in some other areas worldwide, while some other areas have been hit hard with too much rain at times.

BTW, ever see the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence", which is a true story about three Aboriginal children trying to flee a government boarding school to break them of their tradition? Great movie.
I haven't seen it, I'll look out for it.
 
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