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This paper focuses on a water management project in the remote Aboriginal community of Milingimbi, Northern Australia. Drawing on materials and experiences from two distinct stages of this project, we revisit a policy report and engage in ethnographic storytelling in order to highlight a series of sensing practices associated with water management. In the former, a working symmetry between Yolngu and Western water knowledges is actively sought through the practices of the project. However, in the latter, recurrent asymmetries in the research work continue to appear: a bilingual diagram of water usage is displayed but produces confusion; measuring a water hole for salinity, a member of the scientific team throws in a water meter, while a Yolngu elder prefers the telling of an ancestral story; a collaborative 3-D mapping exercise invites participation from community members but struggles to develop an outcome that differs from existing maps used by scientists and government staff. Focusing on these moments as subtle points of rupture, we suggest that attending to "seeing," "telling," and "mapping" in both stages of this water management project offers a way to explore the political work of crafting climate futures and beginning to interrogate differing means for "doing difference" within them.

"The Department of Housing and Community Development, Northern Territory Government, engaged the Ground Up team at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, to provide research and support around the development of Indigenous-led evaluation of government engagement and coordination activities in four remote Aboriginal communities. Employing a research approach that we call 'Ground Up', we worked collaboratively with elders, community members and local researchers to clarify local understandings and imperatives of good engagement and coordination. Through this collaborative work, we also developed systems for government to receive, and respond to, feedback on their engagement and coordination activities in remote Aboriginal communities. - Executive summary ; Key insights -- Executive summary -- General research findings: Expanded summary: engagement and coordination in Remote Indigenous Communities -- Community reports: Galiwin'ku, Ngukurr, Ntaria, Ali Curung -- Conclusion ; © 2017 The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University Spencer, Michaela, Michael Christie, Jennifer Macdonald, Matthew Campbell, Helen Verran, (2017) Remote Engagement Coordination – Indigenous Evaluation Research: Final Report Charles Darwin University Uniprint http://recier.cdu.edu.au/