Australia's water market is excluding Indigenous people, study finds

Aboriginal people hold less than 1% of all water licences, a form of dispossession that needs urgent redress, researchers say

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.