'Most precious thing in the desert': the fight to protect sacred sites against the NT's largest water license

Traditional owners have lost repeated legal challenges over the 40-gigalitre-per year water license at Singleton Station - and now they're taking it to the high courtWhen parts of nature die and species are lost, traditional owners like Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe feel deep grief.In Kaytetye country, near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, life and death are controlled by access to water.Traditional owner Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe, a Kaytetye-Warlpiri woman, is one of the leading voices opposing the groundwater licence Continue reading...