Thread by @EnviroVic

MEDIA RELEASE: ‘We stand by our river’

First Nations leaders, fishers, farmers and environment groups unite in Canberra to demand real water for the #MurrayDarling

@naturensw @ConservationSA @QLDConservation

environmentvictoria.org.au/2023/11/14/we-…

@naturensw @ConservationSA @QLDConservation “The government needs to not just be listening, but actually hearing and implementing the teaching from First Nations people on how to look after our rivers and water systems."

— Major Moogy Sumner, Ngarrindjeri / Kaurna Senior Elder

"Contrary to popular belief buybacks are popular with the majority of irrigators who own entitlements, and they are not a factor contributing to irrigator exits."

— Bill McClumpha, irrigator from Red Cliffs, VIC

"I’m proud to stand alongside such a wide cross-section of Basin and First Nations communities united in our call for the government to go further in returning water to our rivers."

— @JonathanLaNauze, @EnviroVic

"We do not need more science to achieve the Plan, we know what needs to be done. Minister Plibersek, we ask you to be brave."

— Gloria Jones, multi-generational fisher from Clayton Bay, SA

"As farmers who grow cattle on floodplains in the Darling Basin, we contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the economy ... We need this Bill to guarantee more for the Darling ahead of the next drought."

— Gary Hall, grazier from the Macquarie Marshes, NSW

"It is critical that all Australians, from the bottom of the Coorong, where the Murray Mouth meets the Southern ocean, right to northern Queensland, demand real water for the river now."

— Char Nitschke, @ConservationSA