Indigenous groups unite in call for Murray-Darling royal commission

February 13, 2019
By Peter Hannam
Sydney Morning Herald

Only a federal royal commission with “real teeth” can uncover the corruption and mismanagement that is killing the nation’s biggest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, leading Indigenous groups say.

The demand was a centrepiece of issues raised by hundreds of water activists who gathered in Canberra on Wednesday, including some who staged a protest in the Marble Foyer of Parliament House.