Despite their flaws, well-designed and regulated water markets remain one of our best tools for managing drought.
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In 2022-23, a vast plume of floodwater from the Murray River delivered thousands of tonnes of organic material to the ocean – and a feeding bonanza began.
The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start managing our rivers for the future?
Natural variability in Australian rainfall can produce “mega-droughts” lasting 20 years or more. Add in human-caused climate change, and future droughts may be far worse than imagined.
Suicide rates jumped in the Murray Darling Basin following extreme drought and hotter temperatures, a new study shows. The findings highlight the need for action to manage climate change impacts.
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.
Australia’s beloved billabongs and waterholes are in danger of filling up with eroded soil from farms, leaving little room for the aquatic animals that depend on these vital drought refuges.
For the second time in five years, millions of fish suffocated in the Darling River. This was not a natural disaster – it’s our doing
Carp can make riverbeds look like golf balls – denuded and dimpled, devoid of any habitat. Releasing carp herpes virus is a controversial proposition, so let’s weigh up the risks and benefits.
In our land of drought and flooding rains, better water management should feature in every federal budget. The new budget delivers it – but not everyone is happy.
Climate change shouldn’t be used as a “get out-of jail free” card to excuse bad decision-making and poor planning decisions.
Worsening droughts and flooding likely threaten the future of cotton farming – by far the most important crop in the basin.
Federal Labor has pledged to deliver the Murray Darling Basin Plan. But a new report casts serious doubt on that promise.
Climate change has forced Australia’s grape growers to band together to secure water, as well as plant new varieties and cut water use.
A new book says Australia’s 20-year water trading experiment is sucking hundreds of millions of dollars each year out of the Murray-Darling Basin and directing water away from productive land.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon.
Morrison and Joyce have negotiated the terms of their partnership. In the open, the restored leader let the Nationals run riot, in a way we haven’t seen for a long time, writes Michelle Grattan
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National 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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Professor of Economics and Head of School, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith 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 in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Emeritus Professor Water Science, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Research fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland