Note: A number of wetlands are on offshore islands.
Source: DAWE (2021b)
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Figure 21 Ramsar wetlands of Australia
Figure 22 Rainfall deficiencies in the Condamine–Balonne catchment, 2017–19
Figure 23 Water storage levels in Beardmore water storage (Lake Kajarabie, 86 gigalitre capacity)
Figure 24 Clear Lake, Narran Wetlands, on (from top to bottom) 3, 6 and 19 March
Photos: Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
Figure 25 Australian Indigenous people’s view of the relationship between water, Country, culture and people
Source: Adapted from Moggridge (2010)
Figure 26 A section of the Brewarrina Aboriginal fish traps (Baiame’s Nguunhu) in low flow
Photo: B Moggridge
Figure 27 Indigenous organisations’ water holdings per catchment in the New South Wales portion of the Murray–Darling Basin, 2018
ML/yr = megalitres per year
Note: Catchments are defined as Surface Water Sustainable Diversion Limit Resource Units (see MDBA 2017).
Source: Hartwig et al. (2020) (as at October 2018)
Figure 28 Budj Bim Aboriginal aquaculture site, Victoria
Figure 29 Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, designed and built by the Gunditjmara people
Photo: Ian McNiven, courtesy Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
Figure 30 The 10 steps to implement the Water Quality Management Framework
