The lower Murray, home to the beloved Coorong, is officially in its death throes. The only way to save it is community, research and more flowing water.
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The 2022 floods triggered shifts in the Coorong’s microbiome—similar to our gut bacteria on new diets—revealing why freshwater flows are vital to wetland health.
Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate change worsens. This fact must be central to decisions about how much water can be taken from the system.
With the support of the Greens, there’s a chance the ‘Restoring Our Rivers’ Bill will pass. Will it be enough to put the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track?
Buying back water from irrigators across the Murray-Darling Basin will not be enough to restore river health because we have big problems getting this ‘environmental water’ to where it’s needed most.
Knowing the ‘next drought is just around the corner’, Australia’s Water Minister Tanya Plibersek is striking a new agreement to return water and health to the Murray-Darling Basin.
Projects have not been delivered. States are bickering. If the Albanese government is to uphold its election promise to deliver the Murray plan, hard tradeoffs are needed.
After almost half a century, the United Nations has waded back into the murky world of water policy. But one of the ideas following this year’s international meeting has been shot down.
Victoria is planning to engineer wetlands so more water can go to agriculture. It’s not a good plan.
Indigenous engineering and care for Country points to a better way to manage the Baaka.
First Nations people have almost no say in how water is used in Australia. The Productivity Commission’s latest report does little to address that.
China believed the Murray Darling Basin Plan was about more than the environment. It wanted to know how much more.
The number of visitors to the restored wetlands is increasing each year, as is the wildlife.
Fish must be released into good quality water, with suitable habitat and lots of food. These conditions have been quite rare in Murray Darling rivers in recent years.
Thirty years since Australia’s water reform project began, it’s clear our efforts have largely failed. We must find another way.
Knee-jerk responses to water insecurity won’t fix the basin. The harder and longer path is delivering real water reform, including transparent water planning enshrined in law.
Fire debris flowing into Murray-Darling Basin will exacerbate the risk of fish and other aquatic life dying en masse in a repeat of the shocking fish kills of last summer.
From mass climate change movements to cultural genocide of Uighurs in China, here are some of the headline human rights moments that captured Australia’s attention.
A researcher who’s worked for decades to improve the health of the Murray Darling Basin fears the coming months will be among the worst in history.
Buybacks by open tenders were a successful, cost-effective way of returning water to the Murray-Darling Basin. They should never have been abandoned.
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics and Head of School, Adelaide University
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Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, and Fellow of the Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University
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Adjunct Professor Environment and Natural Resources, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University
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Adjunct, Senior Research Fellow (Human Geography), Adelaide University
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University
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Executive Director and Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Gulbali Institute (Agriculture, Water and Environment), Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University
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Public policy advice, Australian National University
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CEO One Basin CRC, The University of Melbourne