First Nations groups hold about 40 per cent of Australian land through native title claims, yet own and control less than 0.2 per cent of the country's water.
Aboriginal Victorians say British settlement and river regulation has deprived them of their water rights .Legal experts and government officials are providing evidence to a truth-telling inquiry about land and water injustices.
"You know the old saying of dying a death of a thousand cuts? Well, we are dying a death of a million cuts."But Traditional Owners say that rarely happened after the introduction of locks and weirs to manage flows on the nearby Murray River.the network of rivers and creeks that flowed through his region was akin to veins running through a human's body and vital to the health and survival of First Nations people.
Victoria's Yoorrook Justice Commission is examining how First Nations people are excluded from water management. Ms Shing was queried by lawyers assisting the inquiry about how much of that figure had been distributed directly to First Nations people.Surface and groundwater in Victoria is sold through entitlements to water corporations, through the government, private irrigators, power generators and for environmental purposes.
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