Keywords: Murray Darling Basin
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 October 2010
7 Comments
Tony Windsor is proving himself to be a politician of integrity and tact, but has his work cut out for him in the case of the Murray-Darling Basin irrigators. Mary MacKillop was a champion of rural and regional Australians. It is worth considering her strategy in the context of the irrigators' struggle for survival.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sarah Kanowski
- 09 March 2010
10 Comments
Throughout his 2007 election campaign Rudd pledged to address 'inflated grocery prices'. But Australians are spending less at the supermarket than ever before. Cheap food has come at a cost to
the livelihoods of Australian farmers and the environment.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 14 December 2009
5 Comments
If Hawke and Keating had failed to act on economic reform, the opportunity cost would have been devastating unemployment during the GFC. It is not difficult to imagine the opportunity cost of the priority Rudd is giving to his own popularity over reforms that are now urgently needed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 02 October 2009
2 Comments
An alliance of traditional owners in the Murray Darling Basin is seeking to assert their role in decisions concerning water management.
In Murray River Country, Jessica K. Weir shows how their view for a healthy river could bring
economics and ecology into alignment.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 16 September 2009
5 Comments
If anyone expected Ross Garnaut to be bitter about the
Government's inadequate response to his 2008 Review, they were wrong.
He is optimistic about the positive public impact of the Review and said climate change denialists are 'grasping at straws'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 May 2009
3 Comments
The community is divided over the Government's revised climate change strategy. Australia has the most visible evidence of climate change, which makes it all the more urgent for us to provide leadership on the world stage.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 09 September 2008
7 Comments
In The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a town tries to buy a cheap solution to a terrible problem, and their children pay the price. In light of Garnaut's latest, coservative climate change recommendations, it seems we may need a Class 5 tropical cyclone slamming into Brisbane to jolt us into decisive action.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 30 April 2008
5 Comments
The Murray is a harnessed beast. Its flow is regulated by locks and weirs. The engineering feats to which we are wedded seem not so much a testimony to our power as to our continued foreignness. From Eureka Street, June 1991.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 20 February 2008
7 Comments
The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our
financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the
damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ursula Stephens
- 12 September 2007
1 Comment
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 May 2007
2 Comments
Symbolic gestures, whether at personal or at national level, are effective, even though they will have a barely measurable effect on water supply or global warming. Our world becomes different, and our sense of what has priority in it also changes.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 27 February 2007
8 Comments
Australia is not infinite; there is a limit to our productive capacity and we may well have already exceeded it. One of the unmentionable and politically incorrect questions is how many people the continent can sustain while retaining some respect for the integrity of the landscape.
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