Ghostly gums line the Murray River. Photo: Jessica Weir
We just don't all come from Adam and Eve. We come from the simple dirt that we walk upon. And out spirits, and our Baiame, our makers, it's all interconnected there. And people don?t even show respect, you know, for that. If our river and environment is dying, then I believe that we as a people are also dying. These are the words of Lee Joachim, an Indigenous man of the Yorta Yorta people from Barmah, Victoria. His is one of many voices telling a similar story - the Murray River is dying.
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