Indigenous leadership

“Floods have positive and negative impacts on the environment. Moving to treating floodplains as assets means re-thinking environmental impacts from floods. Indigenous people can lead us all to understand the impacts of these changes and hazards and what needs to be done to restore and remediate Country.”

Oliver Costello (Bundjalung) in: NSW Government (2022) Flood Inquiry Volume One: Summary report

Image: A view of Hill End from Toowong in 1885 before the construction of houses along the river bank. Credit: State Library of Queensland.