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Griffith University researchers say the amount of water held by Indigenous organisations has fallen by 17% over 10 years. The Darling Barka river at Louth after the arrival of a flow of water from upstream. Photograph: Jenny Evans/Getty Images
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Aboriginal people hold less than 1% of all water licences in Australia, a form of economic and cultural dispossession that needs urgent redress, according to a major study of water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin. Researchers from Griffith University found Aboriginal water entitlements in the New South Wales portion of the basin covered 0.2% of all available surface water, in a region where Aboriginal people comprise about 10% of the population.

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