From historic parliamentary appointments to a suicide crisis and alarming rates of child removal, Indigenous issues have made headlines in 2019.
The Darling River has been known as the Baaka by the Barkindji people for thousands of years, and Barkindji elder Uncle Badger Bates says the cultural impact of a river in crisis has been devastating local communities."We went there, we got everything and it really looked after us, but this is the first time that I've seen the Baaka in the state it is in now."
"We've got to have a say in how our country should be managed, all Aboriginal people have to be entitled to cultural water."
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