CANBERRA -- The message is stark and to the point: If you take our water, you kill our culture. If you kill our culture, you kill our people.
After failed referendum, a 'life-or-death' plea to protect the Northern Territory's Roper River

Roper River map delegation members, from left, Rosina Farrell, Naomi Wilfred, Linda Williams, Daphne Daniels, Roland Nundhirribala and Clive Nunggarrgalu. (Photo by Geoff Hiscock)
CANBERRA -- The message is stark and to the point: If you take our water, you kill our culture. If you kill our culture, you kill our people.