Indigenous water rights and water law reforms in Australia

摘要: This article critically examines the diverse policy and legal frameworks in Australia that seek to address Indigenous peoples’ water interests. The analyses three geographically case studies – northern Australia; a river metropolitan setting (the Yarra); southern Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. Each study legislative representative measures comprise, more or less, “inclusion” of Aboriginal interests their regimes. concludes even “reformed” laws can continue dispossession exclusion peoples wrought by colonisation. In particular, market models require “full allocation” entitlements as prerequisite implementation, operate an exclusionary manner, but statutory planning processes are not immune from inequity either. First Nations’ advocacy continues for robust inclusion water, enters another critical stage its ongoing reform agenda governments review National Water Initiative 2004.