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We briefly stayed at Cowra whilst on a small road trip to Canberra and Melbourne in August. I wanted to have a look at the Lachlan River as it is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment and hence a part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The river, which starts near near Goulburn in the Great Dividing Range,
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The picture below is an indication of the failure to ensure the ecological health of the Murray-Darling Basin. This is dead baby carp washed up on the beach of Petrel Cove, that is west of the Murray Mouth. The dead carp are from a flooded River Murray— the great flood in 2022. This provided ideal
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The Marne was dry, even in in early spring. The flow to the Murray River is now uncommon.
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The photos are early in the morning on Pental Island near Swan Hill in Victoria circa 2020. It was a little sanctuary beside the meandering Little Murray River; a sanctuary surrounded by a world of intensive irrigated agriculture and thirsty crops.
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The photos below shown the condition of the Darling River north of Wentworth in NSW. They were made at a bridge near Pooncarie around April of 2018, just before the drought broke and the Medindee fish kill. This was just after Barnaby Joyce, as the Federal Water Minister in the Turnbull Government, had been using
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The Coorong wetlands in South Australia are a Ramsar listed wetland and is often seen as natural, given that it is national park. But it is deeply historical as it has been shaped by entangled changes to human and nonhuman lives.
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Living in flood country means living with droughts and floods, with rivers that have variable flows, and floods that spread out onto the floodplains.
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The various rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin often run dry during the frequent droughts and then they flood when the drought breaks and the heavy rains fall. Once such flood event happened during the November 2022-February 2023 period to the heavily modified River Murray.
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One of the popular white settler views around Federation was the need to create a culture and society premised on the conquest of nature; that human beings needed to establish mastery domination over nature; the natural world was seen as waste; and it was a waste to let the flowing water of the rivers in
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I last photographed along the Murray River in 2019 when I explored the area around Lake Bonney, Barmera and the Overland Corner in South Australia. This was just after I’d camped at Wentworth and photographed the lower Darling River up to Pooncarie. That was during the drought and I never made it to the Menindee
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