I am currently reading Emily O’Gorman’s 2012 Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (CSIRO Publishing) in the context of the large 2022-23 summer flood of the River Murray was due to the torrential rain caused by a La Niña weather event.
This flood had a noticeable impact on the coastal foreshore around the mouth of the River Murray in South Australia. The foreshore was covered in foam that was waist high in places for several days:
O’Gorman’s’ text is part of the environmental humanities and it explores people’s (white settlers) changing relationships with, and understanding of, floods and the rivers and floodplains of the Murray and Darling river systems. It follows a chronological course through European land-use practices in the Murray-Darling catchment, focusing on significant flooding events affecting four townships: Gundagai (1852), Bourke (1890), Mildura (1956) and Cunnamulla (1990).
Nourishing Terrains 
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