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Project Report
Cultural Water for Cultural Economies (final report), launched at the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations full gathering, 12 March 2021
Our Research Team
- Dr Erin O’Donnell, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Lee Godden, Melbourne Law School
- Dr Katie O’Bryan, Monash University
Publications
- Erin O'Donnell, Lee Godden, Katie O'Bryan, Will Mooney, Lauren Chester and Grant Rigney, 'Returning Water Rights to Aboriginal People'. Pursuit, 6 April 2021
- Troy McDonald and Erin O’Donnell, ‘Victoria just gave 2 billion litres of water back to Indigenous people. Here’s what that means for the rest of Australia’. The Conversation, 30 November 2020
In the News
- Erin O'Donnell quoted in 'Traditional owners say missing out on rare opportunity to access water rights is a step backwards'. ABC News, 25 May 2021
- Erin O'Donnell quoted in 'First Nations slam ‘secretive’ Victorian government water grant', The Age, 25 May 2021
- Sarah Marinos, 'Melbourne's Real-World Impact on Climate Change'. Pursuit, 18 March 2021
Past Events
- E O’Donnell, L Chester, G Rigney, W Mooney, L Godden, K O’Bryan, Cultural Water for Cultural Economies, International Riversymposium (28-30 Sep 2021, Brisbane)
- Brendan Kennedy (Tati Tati), Melissa Kennedy (Tati Tati), Bruce Lindsay (Environment Justice Australia) and Erin O’Donnell, chaired by Sangeetha Chandrashekeran (MSSI), Water rights for First Nations people: Establishing a Cultural Flows model on Tati Tati Country, 20 September 2021, hosted by Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
- Grant Rigney (Ngarrindjeri), Erin O’Donnell, Brendan Kennedy (Tati Tati), Lisa Hocking, Policy and Program Manager (GLaWAC), Uncle Lloyd Hood (Gunaikurnai), Tim Paton (Gunaikurnai), Zena Cumpston (Barkandji), Jacqueline Peel and Eddie Cubillo (Larrakia/Wadjigan and Central Arrente), Water sovereignty, climate futures and the academy: can we heal country on stolen Indigenous land? Video recording available here
- E O’Donnell, L Chester, G Rigney, W Mooney, L Godden, K O’Bryan, Cultural Water for Cultural Economies AIATSIS Summit (31 May-4 June 2021, Adelaide)
- E O’Donnell, L Chester, G Rigney, W Mooney, L Godden, K O’Bryan, Cultural Water for Cultural Economies Frontiers in Environmental Law conference (25-26 February 2021, University of SA, Adelaide)
Project Funding and ethics
Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations, AUD$300,000
The University of Melbourne Humanities Law and Social Sciences Ethics Committee approved the project ‘Water Access for Aboriginal Economic Development in Victoria’ (ID: 1954101.1).