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Bradley MoggrideAboriginal perspectives in water planning |
ABOUT BRADLEY
I am a proud Murri from the Kamilaroi Nation (North-West NSW) and water is at the core of who I am and what I do, for the last 20years anyway. I live on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra.
I am an Associate Professor and PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra and work part-time as the Indigenous Liaison Officer for Threatened Species Recovery Hub as a part of National Environmental Science Program (NESP).
I am undertaking a research-based study to demonstrate credible evidence of the value of water for Australia’s First Peoples; with a Kamilaroi Methodology and how modern-day water planning can accommodate these.
I am an Associate Professor and PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra and work part-time as the Indigenous Liaison Officer for Threatened Species Recovery Hub as a part of National Environmental Science Program (NESP).
I am undertaking a research-based study to demonstrate credible evidence of the value of water for Australia’s First Peoples; with a Kamilaroi Methodology and how modern-day water planning can accommodate these.
WHAT DO YOU RESEARCH?
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This is the Gwydir Wetlands in North-West NSW, when you add water to a dry landscape (naturally – rain or via planned delivery from storages) it comes back to life. This was in September 2018 and seeing it dry earlier that year was great for the spirit of the people, country and culture.
My research is aiming to provide a framework for the delivery of water that is determined by cultural values and traditional knowledge of the Kamilaroi People, my people. |
HOW DO YOU RESEARCH?
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Water quality and quantity go hand in hand and delivered at the right time and right place on the direst inhabited continent on earth informed by the oldest knowledge will get results beyond science.
There are cultural (natural) indicators in the environment that are not used as a trigger for when and where to water, there is traditional knowledge of the cycles in the seasons that differ from the four traditional ones that determine when and where to water that are not used, there is language and there are songs, stories and dances thousands of years old that identify when and where to water but are not used. That is my challenge. |
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WHY DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO?
Celebrating and giving a water voice to the oldest culture on the driest inhabited continent on earth, is worth every second.
My ancestors were the first scientists with Kamilaroi methodologies, Country as their apparatus, testing, replicating the same result – sustainable survival in a harsh variable environment.
My ancestors were the first scientists with Kamilaroi methodologies, Country as their apparatus, testing, replicating the same result – sustainable survival in a harsh variable environment.