Indigenous groups in Murray-Darling Basin fight to have their voices heard over water rights

“If you came here to this spot when the fish kill was on, all you’d be smelling was stink.”

Barkandji elder William ‘Badger’ Bates is standing on the edge of the Darling River outside Menindee in New South Wales where, two years ago, more than a million fish washed up dead.

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