Working with Aboriginal peoples

Planning water for the environment, in partnership with Aboriginal peoples, to heal Country.

Water for the environment – healing Country

Planning water for the environment in partnership with Aboriginal peoples.
Working together

We are committed to working with Aboriginal peoples across the NSW Murray–Darling Basin.
Supporting Nation-led projects on Country

We are partnering with Aboriginal communities across the NSW Murray–Darling Basin.
Recognising Aboriginal people’s rights, voices, and values

International, NSW and Commonwealth legislation inform our approach to partnering with Aboriginal peoples.

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A group of workshop participants stand in front of a cleared area

Sharing knowledge at the heart of Murie Creek project

Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii)

NSW Government releases annual environmental water priority statements for 2024–25

View of the Hunter River

Inaugural Chair of Hunter-Paterson Environmental Water Advisory Group appointed

A brown river, flanked by conifers and eucalypts on both banks, reflecting in the water

Aboriginal community's input in long-term water plans

A man in outdoor clothing stands in long green wetland vegetation with bulrushes in the background; he is leaning over a metal rod or tube going into the soil.

What soil samples unearthed in the Gwydir Wetlands

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