Australian Indigenous Water Policy and the impacts of the ever-changing political cycle

Taylor, K.S.; Moggridge, Bradley; Poelina, Anne

doi:10.1080/13241583.2017.1348887

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“…Implementation of environmental flows requires a complementary suite of policy, legislative, regulatory, financial, scientific, and cultural norms and values that ensure effective delivery and beneficial ecological and societal outcomes (Hart, 2016a,b;Harwood et al, 2017;Horne et al, 2017c). The full and equal participation of people of all cultures, and respect for their rights, responsibilities and systems of governance in environmental water decisions can strengthen sustainable outcomes, and these social and cultural dimensions of eflow management warrant far more attention Johnston, 2012;Vörösmarty et al, 2013;Taylor et al, 2016). Challenges to environmental flows science and practice are emerging as societal perspectives shift due to increased uncertainty about water availability under growing human demand and climate change (Milly et al, 2008;Poff and Matthews, 2013;Capon et al, in review).…”

Section: Declaration On Environmental Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

Arthington

Bhaduri

Bunn

et al. 2018

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Section: Declaration On Environmental Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

Arthington

Bhaduri

Bunn

et al. 2018

Front. Environ. Sci.

296

225

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“…Such issues arose, for example, in the negotiated research-practice and comanagement interactions developed between the New South Wales Government (Australia) Aboriginal Water Initiative and Indigenous communities. Despite working hard to build trust and negotiate protocols for interaction and data management to manage water and its associated values, as well as to build cultural awareness in the government, funding was later removed, and much of the good will and ethical research-practice was put into peril (see Taylor et al 2016). …”

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Learning from collaborative research on sustainably managing fresh water: implications for ethical research–practice engagement

Ayre¹,

Wallis²,

Daniell³

2018

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. 2018. Learning from collaborative research on sustainably managing fresh water: implications for ethical research-practice engagement. Ecology and Society 23 (1) ABSTRACT. Since the mid-2000s, there has been increasing recognition of the promise of collaborative research and management for addressing complex issues in sustainably managing fresh water. A large variety of collaborative freshwater research and management processes is now evident around the world. However, how collective knowledge development, coproduction, or cocreation is carried out in an ethical manner is less well known. From the literature and our experiences as applied, transdisciplinary researchers and natural resource management practitioners, we seek to describe and explore these aspects of empirical cases of collaborative freshwater research and management. Drawing on cases from Indigenous community-based natural resource management in northern Australia, flood and drought risk management in Bulgaria, water management and climate change adaptation in the Pacific, and regional catchment and estuary management in Victoria and New South Wales in Australia, we identify lessons to support improved collaborative sustainable freshwater management research and practice. Cocreation represents an emerging approach to participation and collaboration in freshwater management research-practice and can be seen to constitute four interlinked and iterative phases: coinitiation, codesign, coimplementation, and coevaluation. For freshwater researchers and managers and their collaborators, paying attention to these phases and the ethical dilemmas that arise within each phase will support the cocreation of more effective and ethical research-practice through: sensitizing collaborators to the need for reflexivity in research-practice, proposing action research codesign as a method for managing emergent questions and outcomes, and supporting more equitable outcomes for collaborators through an emphasis on coevaluation and collaborative articulation of the links between research outputs and practice outcomes.

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“…NSW Government water agencies and departments have faced political water cycle changes and undergone widespread restructures over the last several years, including the dismantling of the once 11-person Aboriginal-specific water unit [88]. Such changes have reduced the capacity of government to address these issues, according to Aboriginal people previously employed in that unit (B. Moggridge, 4 May 2017).…”

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“…Significantly, when preparing this type of Plan, the Minister retains discretion regarding stakeholder engagement and which notification provisions to adopt (WMA s 50(2A)) (see also [78,79]). While Aboriginal people contributed to the development of Minister's Plans through a dedicated Aboriginal unit within the NSW water agency (which existed from 2012 to 2016) [88], overall, the reliance on Minister's Plans limits opportunities for Aboriginal peoples, as well as the general public, to provide sustained and comprehensive input. This is compared to planning processes that directly involve multiple stakeholders and contain opportunities to deliberate over water-use scenarios and impacts while considering trade-offs amongst competing uses [89].…”

Section: Nsw Water Allocation Planning Regimementioning

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Recognition of Barkandji Water Rights in Australian Settler-Colonial Water Regimes

2018

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Abstract:The passage of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) brought with it much anticipation-though in reality, quite limited means-for recognizing and protecting Aboriginal peoples' rights to land and water across Australia. A further decade passed before national and State water policy acknowledged Aboriginal water rights and interests. In 2015, the native title rights of the Barkandji Aboriginal People in the Australian State of New South Wales (NSW) were recognized after an eighteen-year legal case. This legal recognition represents a significant outcome for the Barkandji People because water and, more specifically, the Darling River, or Barka, is central to their existence. However, the Barkandji confront ongoing struggles to have their common law rights recognized and accommodated within Australian water governance regimes. Informed by literature relating to the politics of recognition, we examine the outcomes of government attempts at Indigenous recognition through four Australian water regimes: national water policy; native title law; NSW water legislation; and NSW water allocation planning. Drawing from the Barkandji's experiences in engaging with water regimes, we analyze and characterize the outcomes of these recognition attempts broadly as 'misrecognition' and 'non-recognition', and describe the associated implications for Aboriginal peoples. These manifestations of colonial power relations, whether intended or not, undermine the legitimacy of state water regimes because they fail to generate recognition of, and respect for, Aboriginal water rights and to redress historical legacies of exclusion and discrimination in access to water.

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Australian Indigenous Water Policy and the impacts of the ever-changing political cycle

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

Learning from collaborative research on sustainably managing fresh water: implications for ethical research–practice engagement

Recognition of Barkandji Water Rights in Australian Settler-Colonial Water Regimes

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Australian Indigenous Water Policy and the impacts of the ever-changing political cycle

Cited by 45 publications

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The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

Learning from collaborative research on sustainably managing fresh water: implications for ethical research&#8211;practice engagement

Recognition of Barkandji Water Rights in Australian Settler-Colonial Water Regimes

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