Scattered across the Murray Darling basin are numerous wetlands, 16 of them deemed important enough to be protected by the international RAMSAR Convention.
But environmental historian Emily O’Gorman says it is a mistake to set wetlands aside as areas not available for human interaction and use.
Because humans, especially Aboriginal people, have been intertwined with these places, always.
This is the final instalment of our three part series on the Murray Darling.
Guest;
Emily O'Gorman, senior lecturer at Macquarie University
Author of ‘Wetlands in a dry land: More-than-human histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin’ (University of Washington Press)
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