Overturning aqua nullius

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Securing Aboriginal water rights

By Virginia Marshall

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Overturning Aqua Nullius by Virginia Marshall explores the legal and cultural recognition of Indigenous water rights in Australia. It challenges the historical concept of "aqua nullius," which denied these rights, and advocates for a new approach that honours Indigenous knowledge and connection to waterways. As a crucial discussion within environmental science, it addresses both justice and sustainability.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in exploring the complexities of Indigenous water rights within Australia. It presents a detailed analysis of legal frameworks and the crucial necessity of recognising Indigenous custodianship over water resources, offering insightful perspectives on environmental justice and decolonisation in relation to natural resources.

Overturning aqua nullius

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Overturning aqua nullius aims to cultivate a new understanding of Aboriginal water rights and interests in the context of Aboriginal water concepts and water policy development in Australia. In this award-winning work, Dr Marshall argues that Aboriginal water rights require legal recognition as property rights, and that water access and water infrastructure are integral to successful economic enterprise in Aboriginal communities.

Aboriginal peoples' social, cultural, and economic certainty rests on their right to control and manage customary water. Drawing on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Marshall argues that the reservation of Aboriginal water rights needs to be prioritised above the water rights and interests of other groups.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922059093

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by Hon Michael Kirby

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature Virginia Marshall

About the Author

Virginia Marshall is a Wiradjuri Nyemba woman who commenced legal practice in 2003. In 2005 she became an Executive Officer leading the Aboriginal Water Trust and was a member of the inaugural Indigenous Water Summit established by the National Water Commission. Since 2013 she has been the Principal Solicitor of Triple BL Legal specialising in intellectual property and traditional knowledge and commercial and contracts law. Marshall was the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from Macquarie University with a PhD in Law. For over a decade she has been an active member of the Law Society of NSW for whom she has written and taught in criminal, environmental law and conveyancing practice.