Murray-Darling Basin plan a blessing and a curse for Aboriginals

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Indigenous communities along the Murray Darling river system have a lot to gain, but also a lot to lose, under the basin management proposal recently released. For the first time, Aboriginal people along the river have been included in the consulting process, with cultural sites and connection to the river taken into consideration. But, if critics of the draft proposal are right, they will also bit hit with job cuts like other regional communities in the area.

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Monday, October 11 2010
Produced By Shevonne Hunt
Featured in storyMatthew Rigney, chairman of the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous NationsThe Shadow Minister for Water, Barnaby Joyce Phillip Duncan, senior policy officer with the NSW Land Council, and the Chair of the National Water Commission’s First People’s Water Engagement Council
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