Glistening beaches and luxury resort belie âsystemicâ issues at Indigenous bodies
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For millennia, the dazzling beaches that run uninterrupted along the coast south-east of Adelaide helped sustain the Ngarrindjeri people whose lands encompass the waterways close to the mouth of the Murray River.
Historical middens testify to the practice of harvesting pipis â small clams known in local language as âkutiâ, a key food source for the Ngarrindjeri whose traditional landowners number about 4000.
Coorong National Park in South Australia; pipi are harvested from beaches nearby.
Credit:Alamy
So when the federal governmentâs Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation trumpeted the success of a pipi-harvesting project it had funded for the benefit of the Ngarrindjeri, minimal questions were asked outside the local community.
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