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Just reminding everyone particularly Australian Senators that voluntary buybacks from irrigators should be applied where greatest environment, social & enviromental benefits will be achieved.
Read here about our Dealing with Fines program.
We're smashing Walgett fine debt! Learn about DEG with Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT's nifty Yuwaya Ngarrali Dealing with Fines program - & why ACCOs are the only way a service like this can be successful. Check out the recording of our webinar info session hosted by Peta
DEG made a submission 13/10/23 to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications Inquiry into the Water Amendment (Restoring our Rivers) 2023.
DEG made a submission 6 October 2023 to provide information to the Productivity Commission Review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap Draft Report. It provided advice from our work in our Yuwaya Ngarrali partnership with UNSW to Close the Gap.
DEG has always wanted to understand the amount of government investment into service delivery and infrastructure for the Walgett Aboriginal community so that we can evaluate, from the community perspective, the value and effectiveness of that investment.
Wiradjuri building designer and architecture student Samantha Rich was introduced to DEG in 2021 and she quickly became a much valued member of the Yuwaya Ngarrali team. Her first task was to listen to DEG Elders about their housing and home design needs.
DEG and WAMS developed a joint statement about the high levels of homelessness in Walgett 13 July 2023 when we learnt that Homelessness NSW was preparing a campaign. The statement outlined our understanding of the situation, and evidence from our advocacy in the past.
This photo was taken by the Walgett River Rangers 19 September 2023 on the Namoi River showing the poor water quality we live with in Walgett permanently now. Blue-green algae reports prepared by Water NSW
Dharriwaa Elders Group is determined to make sure that the voters and decisionmakers know what is happening to the rivers and other waterways in DEG's area of interest in the Northern Murray Darling Basin.
Yuwaya Ngarrali Caring for Country program convened a meeting of all DEG's collaborators in its caring for Country - water work so that each of the collaborators could meet the others and learn of their combined work
Yuwaya Ngarrali - the partnership between DEG and the UNSW, recruited three members of a new Youth Team in 2020. We worked together - led by Peta MacGillivray, to build a holistic, community-led model
DEG was shocked to learn from the ABC in early July that the Walgett Shire Council had resolved to "decommission the Walgett pool". We swung into action along with WAMS, the Walgett swimming club and the town's swimming community.
Our new tinny provides the DEG River Ranger team with new access to areas on the river that were otherwise inaccessible by land through hostile landholders' gates and tracks.
DEG's River Rangers are out on the rivers and other waterways in DEG's area of interest daily. They are the organisation's eyes and ears, and notice the appalling condition of the rivers. In February 2023 the team documented dead dhagaay - yellowbelly
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