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Native Title, Land & Water

Native title and fresh and sea water

This project examines native title debates regarding issues related to rights and interests, privatisation and management of water.

Various resources have been published through this research project. This includes publications arising from a research agreement between Dr. Jessica Weir and the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations:

• Weir, J. 2010 'Cultural Flows in Murray River Country', Australian Humanities Review, 48, pp. 131-142.
• Weir, J. 2009 'Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners', Aboriginal Studies Press.
• Weir, J. 2008 'Connectivity' ( 127 Kb), Australian Humanities Review , 45, pp.153-164.
• Weir, J. and S. Ross. 2007. 'Beyond native title: the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations' ( 314 Kb), in F Morphy and B Smith (eds), The Social Effects of Native Title, Recognition, Translation Co-existence CAEPR Research Monograph No. 27 ANU E-Press.

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• Weir, J. 2007 'The traditional owner experience along the Murray River',  in E Potter, S Mackenzie, A Mackinnon, and J Mackay (eds), Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Melbourne University Press.
• Weir, J. 2006 'Cultural flows in the Murray Lower Darling Rivers' ( 2.75 Mb), in S Jackson (ed) Recognising and protecting Indigenous values in water resource management: A report from a workshop held at CSIRO in Darwin, NT, 5-6 April 2006.
• Weir, J. 2006 'Making the connection between water and sustaining Indigenous cultural life' ( 11.7 Mb), People, Practice and Policy, April 2006.

Other related papers include:

• Weir, J. 2009 'Our understandings of water and how they translate into our decision making’ ( 57 Kb), workshop paper, ACT Planning and Land Authority workshop Planning for our Future – Securing Canberra’s Water, pp.1-7.
• Morgan M, Strelein, L. and J. Weir. 2006 "Authority, knowledge and values: Indigenous Nations engagement in the management of natural resources in the Murray-Darling Basin", in M Langton, O Mazel, L Palmer, K Shain and M Tehan (eds) Settling with Indigenous peoples, The Federation Press, Sydney.
• Clements, J, Kelly, G, Kinnane, S, Oxenham, D, Pardoe, C, Strelein, L, Taylor, P & Veth, P 2006, ‘Sea countries of the south: Indigenous interests and connections within the South West Marine Region of Australia,’ ( 3.45 Mb) report for the National Oceans Office, June.
• Morgan, M, Strelein, L. and J. Weir. 2004. Indigenous Rights to Water in the Murray Darling Basin: In support of the Indigenous final report to the Living Murray Initiative ( 1.2 Mb), Research Discussion Paper # 14, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Smyth, D, Jaireth, H and Strelein, L. 2002. ‘Native title in the South East Marine Region’, 2002 , In National Oceans Office, Sea Country an Indigenous Perspective: The South-east Regional Marine Plan ( 1.25 Mb), pg 104-120.
• Dillon, R 2002, 'Seeing the Sea: Science, Change and Indigenous Sea Rights', AIATSIS Seminar Series 2/2002. Also published in Dillon, R, 2002 'Seeing the Sea: Science, Change and Indigenous Sea Rights' , Maritime Studies 7(12).