Category: water
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The Lachlan River at Cowra
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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Marne River
The Marne was dry, even in in early spring. The flow to the Murray River is now uncommon.
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on Pental Island
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 Darling gone dry
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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Carp + flood country
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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The war on nature
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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a river system at breaking point
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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before the floods
This is a picture of the Little Murray River near Lake Boga which is close to Swan Hill in Victoria. My camp was very close to the Little Murray, which is an anabranch of the River Murray. I spent a lot of my time at Lake Boga walking along the banks of the river, which…
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wetlands v agriculture
Wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin river system can be understood as watery places that are co-constituted by an assemblage of human and nonhuman relations and they are, historically, the changing outcome of a plurality of multispecies interactions. So argues Emily O’Gorman, an environmental historian, in her recent book Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories…
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project on hold: being reinvented
This project has been on hold for the last 8 months because the organizer and the key figure abandoned it. They walked away from it in early 2020 without saying anything. The project had reached the stage of bringing a curator on board to conceptually develop the project and to organize an exhibition. That was…
Nourishing Terrains 