Media Release – 30 November 2023 Restoring our Rivers Bill delivers long-overdue recognition for First Nations, but Government must not defer key unfinished business  MLDRIN welcomes the passage of the Restoring our Rivers Bill through the Senate today, delivering long-overdue recognition and support for Basin First Nations’ water rights. When the Restoring our Rivers Bill...Read More

Media Release 29 November 2023 MLDRIN welcomes an agreement between Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe and the Government today, which will see a $20 million cultural flows planning program delivered in the Murray Darling Basin. This program underpins efforts towards self-determination and water rights for Basin First Nations. An agreement to deliver the funding was reached...Read More

Media Release  13th November 2023 MLDRIN applauds legal practitioners and academics who signed open letter supporting First Nations water rights MLDRIN, a self-determined, First Nation’s owned organization, extends its thanks to the  fifty-plus legal practitioners and academics, including some of the country’s leading barristers’, who signed an open letter to Members of the Federal Parliament...Read More

Media Release 26 October 2023 MLDRIN launches legal challenge against Commonwealth over consultation failures in Murray-Darling Water Resource Plan A confederation of more than 20 Murray-Darling Basin First Nations has launched a legal challenge against Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s approval of a Water Resource Plan last year. The NSW Fractured Rock Water Resource Plan...Read More

MLDRIN hopes that the initiative announced by Minister Plibersek and Minister Burney today will not further delay the delivery of a $40 million commitment made to the Nations of the Murray Darling Basin in 2018 for the purchase of cultural and economic water entitlements. You can read the ABC coverage of this announcement and MLDRIN...Read More