Indigenous Australians, First Australians managed the oldest water industry in the world. Sixty thousand years of water leadership, governance, water sharing, and self-regulation required cooperation and consensus to ‘see, feel and hear ‘watersheds and catchments. A common pool resource for the good of all, including multi-species justice. Professor Poelina will speak to the ancient Wunan governance model of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Watershed, which extended from the Sunrise to the Sundown Country. A bio-cultural bioregion approach purpose built over time, trial and error; to prevent the ‘tragedy of the commons’ as note by Noble Prize Winner Elanor Ostrom. Proven procedural, distributive water justice negotiated through relationships, respect, reciprocity, and responsibility. Key values, ethics, and virtues through self-regulation to sustain a pluriverse of lifeways and livelihoods, living in peace, harmony, and balance through an adaptative management complex systems approach.  Professor Poelina will speak to the opportunities to create place-based relationships and decision-making necessary to ensure sustain living water systems and the opportunity to weave water knowledge and better practice from the ancient to the modern in a time of great uncertainty and climate chaos. Poelina believes when we come together, we can weave two-way science to shift policy and lawful awful laws, to protect and promote globally unique Rivers, which are the life blood of our nation and the planet with their own right to ‘live and flow’. The keynote will include film as a way to bring Martuwarra Fitzroy River to the audience and the audience to the Martuwarra. See www.martuwarra.org