A Wadi Wadi Traditional Owner has launched legal action today challenging the Victorian government’s approval of a floodplain engineering project at Nyah on the Murray River.  Works associated with the project are understood to be imminent and, if they proceed, may harm culturally significant sites and landscapes, including waterways, camping grounds, ancestral burial sites, shell middens, earthen ovens, scar trees, and fish traps.  Traditional Owner Vince Kirby, represented by public interest lawyers at Environmental Justice Australia, … Continue reading Traditional Owner to challenge Murray River floodplain project