Dire States: Threats to environment & culture

Today we look at the outcomes of two governmental inquiries that are seeking to undermine the environment and social justice. Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth reports on the attacks to the charitable status of environmental organisations (www.foe.org.au/articles/2016-05-04/prime-minister-must-reject-anti-democratic-attack-environmental-groups) and work to counter this (www.placesyoulove.org).  Darren Perry from the Ngintait Nation and head of the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (www.mldrin.org.au) talks about the terrible state of the Murray river and an inquiry in to the Murray Basin River Plan that is undermining work to save the river and restore environmental and cultural flows (www.culturalflows.com.au).