About us

In November 2025, the members agreed to formalise their efforts and formed the ACNC registered charity “Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owner Alliance Ltd”. Members are Traditional Owners from across the Lake Eyre Basin region.

Our aspiration for the future of the Alliance is summarised in our Vision Statement:

  • We are a connected and strong collective of members who have the authority to speak for the Country we represent

  • Traditional Owners are in the driver’s seat of decisions about the future of the LEB and its waterways

  • We collaboratively advocate for the culturally sensitive management of the LEB as a whole of system - grounded on research, lore, customs and values of the Traditional Owners of the LEB.

Read our statements

In 2019, representatives from a number of Traditional Owner groups throughout the Lake Eyre Basin came together for the Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owners Alliance.

This meeting was initiated and organised by Traditional Owners from the Lake Eyre Basin.

The outcomes of the meeting included:

  • We endorsed three key statements made by Traditional Owners of the Lake Eyre Basin (The Tibooburra Resolution 2011, The Our Water, Our Future Statement (2019), and the ‘Healthy Water, Healthy Future Statement (2019)

  • We defined our shared values for the waterways, above and underground, for the Lake Eyre Basin

  • We articulated our position on the Queensland Government’s Pristine Rivers election commitment- we want our rivers to remain free-flowing and our floodplains protected from fracking.  

  • We resolved to continue to stand together as the Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owners Alliance.