Lake Eyre Basin Rivers 102 harm them. Governments may have taken away our rights and responsibilities for other things, but they are not taking this responsibility from me. I grew up on Cooper Creek and I know its future depends on the free-flowing water that comes down. We have a collective obligation to keep the Lake Eyre Basin rivers safe. Reference Tobler R, Rohrlach A, Soubrier J, Bover P, Llamas B, Tuke J, Bean N, Abdullah-Highfold A, Agius S, O’donoghue A, O’loughlin I, Sutton P, Zilio F, Walshe K, Williams AN, Turney CSM, Williams M, Richards SM, Mitchell RJ, Kowal E, Stephen JR, Williams L, Haak W, Cooper A (2017) Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia. Nature 544, 180–184. doi:10.1038/nature21416 Western Rivers Advisory Panel (2013) ‘Western Rivers Advisory Panel report’. Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Brisbane, https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/__data/ assets/pdf_file/0015/82500/wrap-report.pdf.