Indigenous Rights in Freshwater:Mapping the Contested Space in Australia, New Zealand and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Indigenous water rights are emerging as a critical contemporary issue in many countries. In Australia, New Zealand and Canada legal progress in this field has been slow, expensive and selectively dispute driven - and policy progress has been piecemeal, fragile, and often focused on procedure over substance. Yet the socio-political context for consideration of these issues has changed – particularly through the ongoing development of international Indigenous rights standards, the strengthening of local Indigenous voices, and improving public understanding of the issues. A common thread is the resurgence of Indigenous laws and knowledges – which has produced some renaissance in Australian native title doctrine, a re-framing of questions in New Zealand in terms of Māori laws and governance rights, and some ‘occupation’ of recognition space in Canada through the assertion of jurisdiction and traditional legal authority. These are potentially significant developments as regards the contested space of freshwater. Each opens new opportunities for Indigenous voices to be better heard and understood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".