The Deep Restoration of First Nations Water Governance on the Murray Darling, with Walbanga Woman Sheryl Hedges
Water policy often gets framed as engineering, compliance, and competing demands. Then Sheryl Hedges steps up at the Australian Water Association conference and resets the baseline: for First Nations people, water is not a resource, it’s a living being that carries memory, knowledge, and songlines. That single shift turns “allocation” into responsibility, and it turns river health into a measure of cultural, ecological, and economic life across generations. Sheryl is a Walbanga woman le...
