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The work to be done - to challenge and shape the course of the future of water - will be spread across many people and done in many workplaces, places of learning and government, businesses, on the land and in communities and homes. Below you will find links to the people who have been mentioned by our panellists, links to actual source documents and to the references where there is not access to the original source.

 

Certain text descriptions are taken from Wikipedia, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

 

Wendy Elford on video at 2:30

 

Erin O'Donnell

 

Katrina Donaghy

 

Anne Poelina

 

Wikipedia Page Fitzroy River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_River_(Western_Australia)

 

The Wurundjeri are an Aboriginal Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation.

 

Erin O’Donnell on Video at 7:20

 

Water trading is the process of buying and selling water access entitlements.

More about Australian water markets (Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment)

 

"Pumped - Four Corners" on water theft (ABC, 24 July 2017)

 

Flood Plain Harvesting (ABC, 26 May 2021)

 

Wikipedia page Millennial Drought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought

 

CSIRO review of groundwater recharge studies (CSIRO, May 2010)

 

Virginia Marshall wrote on the concept of Aqua Nullius

  • AIATIS as publisher (AIATSIS book page)
  • Marshall, V. (2017). Overturning aqua nullius: securing Aboriginal water rights. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

 

Blog post by Erin O’Donnell on Recognition of Rivers as living beings (ACU, 7 December 2021)

 

Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations on percentage of water held by Indigenous Australians

  • NAIDOC week Media Release
  • Report (MLDRIN, 2020)
  • Hartwig, L. D., Jackson, S., & Osborne, N. (2020). Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South Wales, Australia: The continuities between colonial and neoliberal forms of dispossession. _Land Use Policy, 99_, 104869.
  • Hartwig, L. D., Markham, F., & Jackson, S. (2021). Benchmarking Indigenous water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin: a crucial step towards developing water rights targets for Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 25(2), 98-110.
  • The status of Aboriginal water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin. Hartwig, L.D., & Jackson, S. (2020). The status of Aboriginal water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin. ARI Report No. 2020/004. Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400302

 

 

Wendy Elford on video at 16:00

 

Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment page on history of water markets in Australia https://www.awe.gov.au/water/policy/markets/history

 

Katrina Donaghy on video at 17:50

 

Wikipedia page Turbal people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrbal

 

Addition to Katrina at video 19:00: Katrina adds that her “background in government, utilities and the not-for-profit sector still influences me to this day.”

 

Addition to Katrina at video 19:10: Katrina adds “When the technology found me in 2015, I found a book about Bitcoin in my children’s council library which I borrowed without hesitation. I had to read every page slowly and sometimes twice as it challenged the way I have bought up to think about money and monetary systems.”

 

Addition to Katrina at video 19:24: Katrina adds “it was impossible to share data across government agencies and so much money was spent to recreate that same data in different systems.”

 

Addition to Katrina at video 19:47: Katrina adds that “It was then a number of conversations and serendipity that led me to co-founding a startup to build solutions with blockchain technology. Civic Ledger was founded in late 2016”

 

Wikipedia page Blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

 

Wikipedia page Governance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance

 

Wikipedia page Non Fungible Token https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

 

Addition to Katrina at video 20:54, Katrina adds “With the inclusion of smart contracts, no water market information can be possibly omitted from the transaction.”

 

Allan Dale

 

Joe Moro

 

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority.

 

Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has three initial focus areas of Agriculture and food, Northern Australia health service delivery and Traditional Owner-led business development

 

Australian Financial Review

 

Cassian Drew

 

Anne Poelina on video at 26:46

 

Yawuru home page http://www.yawuru.org.au/

 

Peter Cullen

 

BBC Show reel https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p080h12j/this-river-can-sue-you-in-a-court-of-law

 

Blogpost by Mikki Cusack on Indigenous knowledge as building resilience to climate change (the-Inkline.com, 12 Oct 2020)

 

Martuwarra home page https://martuwarrafitzroyriver.org/voicesofmartuwarra

 

La Meuse Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse

 

The Finke River, or Larapinta (Arrernte), is a river in central Australia, one of four main rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin and thought to be the oldest riverbed in the world. Wikipedia page Finke River (Wikipedia page)

 

Martuwarra RiverOfLife peer reviewed article on rivers as systems with their own law

  • Publisher’s download page
  • RiverOfLife, M., Taylor, K. S., & Poelina, A. (2021). Living Waters, Law First: Nyikina and Mangala water governance in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 25(1), 40-56. doi:10.1080/13241583.2021.1880538

 

 

First Law is described in a blogpost by Marlkka Perdrisat (Junkee.com, 12 Nov 2020)

 

The tale of Tiddalik the Frog is a creation story from Australian Indigenous Dreaming Stories. Tidalik / Tiddalik Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddalik

 

World Rivers Day blogpost on justice and equity https://globalwaterforum.org/2021/09/29/martuwarra-fitzroy-river-voice-for-peace-world-rivers-day-2021/

 

 

Erin O’Donnell on video at 38:11

 

Erin O’Donnell speaks about Legal rights for rivers: a paradox for water governance (Youtube, 31 July 2019

 

Sigal Samuel shares a blogpost on collective action to constitute Lake Eyrie as a legal person (vox.com, 26 Feb 2019)

 

Nicole Pallotta of the Animal Legal Defence Fund shares a blogpost on how decision on personhood for Lake Eyrie was overturned (aldf.org, 4 May 2020)

 

An article by Erin O’Donnell describing how legally constituted rivers don’t have their own water rights

 

Katrina Donaghy on video at 45:10

 

Australian Legislation for the Water Act home page http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/wa200783/

 

David Barbeller wrote for Current Magazine of the Australian Water Association in May, 2018 on The New Valuation of Water.

 

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology overview on water markets is found at http://www.bom.gov.au/water/market/

 

Information about Mareeba Dimbulah water scheme is found at https://www.sunwater.com.au/schemes/mareeba-dimbulah/

 

Fraser Macleod of Civic Ledger wrote a blog post for Medium titled Caring for Water and Country — A Technology Approach with subscription, this blogpost is available on Medium

 

Jessica Sier writes a blogpost for the Australian Financial Review on how to use technology to get the governance on water right

 

 

Addition Katrina at video 45:45 Katrina adds that “We do acknowledge that the regulation that's in place, the Water Act, is the legal instrument that determines the institutional arrangements necessary for water to be issued to a licensee. These institutional arrangements are place specific and are made up of a range of business and operating rules to enforce compliance.”

 

Addition Katrina at video 45:50 Katrina adds “Digitising the water entitlement or allocation and associating it to a water license that is compliant to a water resource system’s business and operating rules is to essentially manage water as a public good but also enable it to be an economic driver.”

 

Katrina Donaghy on video at 52:15

 

Examples of the five water exchanges in Australia

 

Addition Moderator comments at video 54:32 that while trustless is the correct term used in the industry, the term is seen by some commentators as ambiguous – the idea is that blockchain is trustless or works on trustlessness means not that trust is absent, but it is distributed between members of the process so the total amount of trust needed by any one member is minimised).

 

Addition Katrina at video 54:30 Katrina adds “When the smart contracts execute, events are emitted creating an audit log of all transactions associated with that water scheme which is accessible to all.”

 

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Anne Poelina on video at 56:18

 

Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment page summarises the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) https://www.awe.gov.au/agriculture-land/land/nrs/science/ibra

 

CSIRO publication as an example of the overall approach to water accounting; Anne Poelina describes this as “Everything is speculation, everything is modelling” (CSIRO, 2016)

 

Anne Poelina asks “Where’s the next water source?” and sees the Martuwarra as at risk; consider Amalyah Hart blog post “The fight for the Martuwarra” (Cosmos Magazine, 2 Sept 2021)

 

The concept of Living together in the regions may be captured partially in 2002 report on integrated catchment management (Murray-Darling Basin Authority, January 2002)

 

An example with graphics on the logic of why rivers are living water systems are important (Murray-Darling Basin Authority, n.d.)

 

Distributive Water Justice is a concept at the centre of the Water Justice Hub at ANU. Here is an interview with Professor Quentin Grafton published by Shreya Gyawali after the launch on 28 Sept 2020. (woroni.com, 28 November 2020)

 

Erin O’Donnell on video at 1:03:30

 

Water decision making https://www.edo.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Deficiencies-Water-Law-NT.pdf

 

Singleton water license https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-15/nt-approves-singleton-station-water-licence-with-new-conditions/100620724

 

The Northern Territory Government has a system for water allocation planning https://depws.nt.gov.au/water/water-management/water-allocation-plans

 

Another unique aspect of NT Government planning is their Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves https://depws.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/457553/SWRC-Policy-Framework_A4_V1.pdf

 

There are advantages in placed based planning arrangements; Erin O’Donnell asks us to consider the experience in Victoria https://www.vic.gov.au/framework-place-based-approaches/print-all

 

Anne Poelina on video at 1:07:35

 

Australia is presenting itself as open to significant investment in the north of Australia in documents such as this one from Austrade https://www.austrade.gov.au/international/invest/opportunities/northern-australia

 

The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment provides information on biosphere reserves https://www.awe.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/conservation/australias-biosphere-reserves

 

UNESCO presents information on global geoparks https://en.unesco.org/global-geoparks

 

Wikipedia page on bioprospecting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting

 

Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Annual Report is one example of how the capacity for including Indigenous wisdom and knowledge as a guide to development is important https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-reports/indigenous-land-and-sea-corporation/reporting-year/2019-20-4

Draft water allocation plans exist across the north of Western Australia including one for Derby https://consult.dwer.wa.gov.au/water-policy/derby-groundwater-allocation-plan/supporting_documents/Derby_groundwater_allocation_plan.pdf

Anne Poelina gives the example of early experiences of saltwater Intrusion into the Martuwarra. Salt water intrusion is reported by Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment https://www.awe.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ssr191.pdf

There is a call out to Indigenous Australians Indigenous Economic Development Strategy

Climate change is impacting here https://www.awe.gov.au/science-research/climate-change

Allan Dale is an author book titled “Leading from the North: Rethinking northern Australian development”

  • Publisher’s site
  • Brewer, T., Dale, A., Gerritsen, R., Harwood, S., Prideaux, B., Rosenman, L., & Wallace, R. (2021). Leading from the North: Rethinking Northern Australia Development. In: ANU Press.

Anne Poelina on video at 1:16:16

Indigenous Science is described by CSIRO https://www.csiro.au/en/research/indigenous-science

Katrina Donaghy on video at 1:16:57

Katrina Donaghy describes work done by CSIRO. This article describes digital soil mapping, included here as an example of the types of technologies available.

 

Wikipedia page for the concept of the technology divide also known as the digital divide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide

Erin O’Donnell on video at 1:18:56

Kinds of questions scientists are trying to answer; while this blog comes from the perspective of medical research, the approach still has relevance for research about water https://www.science.org/content/article/science-community

Participatory modelling of environmental water flows https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2913/

https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/industry/water/events/maximising-benefits-of-environmental-flows-through-adaptive-management

This report takes a holistic view of rivers in sustaining lives and livelihoods starting with considering the importance of the natural state of bodies of water and environmental water https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au/static/FullTextFiles/070624.pdf

Biodiversity stewardship discussed from the perspective of

 

Erin O’Donnell on video at 1:22:18

Authorizing environment as a concept in an academic realm

 

Water values in Australia are described by CSIRO https://www.publish.csiro.au/ebook/chapter/9780643103283_Chapter_2

Anne Poelina on video at 1:24:45

Anne Poelina discusses the illusion of probity in ‘On just terms” https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=05f7d1e3-7d10-4c80-8ddf-cb894b78b6b2&subId=685165