Status Updates From Indigenous Rights and Water...

Commonwealth legislation is “somewhat uncoordinated when it comes to the legislative recognition of Indigenous interests in water management”. That’s putting it kindly.

“as a legal mechanism for the recognition of Indigenous rights to participate in the management of water resources, the [Native Title Act] is woefully inadequate”

Helpful suggestions for non-Indigenous legal scholars: “by exposing the deep imperfections in our current legal system and by suggesting changes that will give a meaningful voice within that system to Indigenous people, the non-Indigenous legal scholar can seek to change that underlying bias”