The National Water Commission welcomes this opportunity to provide our perspective on your very timely conference theme: Competing for Water in a Climate of Change.
But firstly,he acknowledges that this meeting is being held on the traditional lands of the Noongar people, and pay our respect to elders both past and present.
As the Commission firmly believes, the First Peoples of Australia retain deep relationships with our lands and waters—which are central to their spiritual and cultural identity. And, when it comes to water planning and management, access to water for cultural and economic purposes is essential to Indigenous Australians' aspirations, livelihoods and wellbeing.
