Indigenous fight for ‘water justice’ intensifies as Victoria hands back Murray-Darling entitlement

Tati Tati traditional owner Brendan Kennedy says that, even with the historic allocation, 1.36GL will only water one wetland in northern Victoria. Photograph: Tim Herbert

For Brendan Kennedy, a Tati Tati traditional owner, the crimes of colonisation are not historical: “Our water is being stolen off us every moment of every day.”

“We are river people, we are water people,” he says. “Taking our water away from us depletes us. We can’t survive without it.”