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NetNewsLedger 196 FILE PHOTO - A protester holds a placard as she stands outside the venue for a meeting between Australia s Prime Minister Tony Abbott and forty of the nation s most influential Indigenous representatives in Sydney, Australia, July 6, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray The agreement gives the Gunaikurnai community control over two gigalitres of water from the Mitchell River By Peter Furst SYDNEY – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rights groups have hailed a decision by Australia’s Victoria state to give an Aboriginal community control over a river system as an “enormous first step” for indigenous people’s rights over nature. The government announced last month that it will grant a portion of the water from the Mitchell River to the Gunaikurnai community, giving them control over two gigalitres of water every year – a first for the southeastern state.

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