Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Start Date
27-11-2019 12:30 PM
Description
‘Water governance’ refers to systems of decision making and control of water: who gets what water, when and how, and who has the right to make the decisions. In Australia, outdated water governance must be transformed. One key area is Indigenous peoples’ rights and responsibilities to water. Government policy change is happening slowly. Indigenous people continue to advocate for water (and land) rights and responsibilities as Traditional Owners. This presentation looks across scale to briefly cover: international frameworks for water and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, what’s happening at the Australian national water policy level, the Northern Territory’s new Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves policy (good, bad or both?) and what, if anything, this means for WA.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Kat, "‘Moves towards Co-Governance of Living Waters in Australia’" (2019). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 15.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2019/schedule/15
‘Moves towards Co-Governance of Living Waters in Australia’
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
‘Water governance’ refers to systems of decision making and control of water: who gets what water, when and how, and who has the right to make the decisions. In Australia, outdated water governance must be transformed. One key area is Indigenous peoples’ rights and responsibilities to water. Government policy change is happening slowly. Indigenous people continue to advocate for water (and land) rights and responsibilities as Traditional Owners. This presentation looks across scale to briefly cover: international frameworks for water and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, what’s happening at the Australian national water policy level, the Northern Territory’s new Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves policy (good, bad or both?) and what, if anything, this means for WA.
