About this episode

Sheryl Hedges discusses the significance of water governance from a First Nations perspective at the Australian Water Association conference.

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...

People in this episode

Host: Anthony James

Guest: Sheryl Hedges

Topics covered

• water governance
• First Nations
• cultural ecology
• river health
• policy
• memory
• songlines

Keywords

• water policy
• First Nations
• Murray Darling
• cultural responsibility
• river health
• Sheryl Hedges
• Australian Water Association

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Australian Water Association

Places: Murray Darling, Walbanga

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