Last year this journal devoted an entire edition to Indigenous water management in acknowledgement of the growing importance of Indigenous peoples’ struggles over water in Australia (see v. 26, issue 3). That two books analysing the legal frameworks for recognising Indigenous water rights were published last year (O’Bryan 2019; Macpherson 2019) reflects the attention that some in the scholarly community are now giving to one of the country’s most neglected environmental governance issues, a failing that is embedded in our settler-colonial legal history. These texts will greatly help those involved in water management, or others who work in Indigenous natural resource management, to understand the legal basis of our unjust water governance system.

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土著权利和水资源管理：不仅仅是法律/法规中的另一个利益相关者/土著水权

去年，该期刊专门为《土著水管理》撰稿，以表彰澳大利亚土著人民为争夺水而斗争的重要性日益提高（见第26卷第3期）。去年出版了两本书，分析了承认土著水权的法律框架（O'Bryan 2019; Macpherson 2019），这反映了学术界中的一些人正在关注该国最被忽视的环境治理问题之一，这是一个失败嵌入我们的定居者殖民法律历史中。这些文本将极大地帮助涉及水管理的人员或从事土著自然资源管理工作的人员了解我们不公正的水治理系统的法律基础。