Science | The GuardianMay 8
Water flows to parched NSW wetlands could be turned back on within weeks as drought fears loom https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/08/water-flows-nsw-wetlands-drought-gwydir-australia #MurraydarlingBasin #Water #Environment #Wildlife #NewSouthWales #AustraliaNews #Animals #Biology #AustraliaWeather #RuralAndRegionalAustralia #NewSouthWalesPolitics #AustralianGreens #AustralianLaw #Farming
Water flows to parched NSW wetlands could be turned back on within weeks as drought fears loom

Water minister Rose Jackson calls drying in Gwydir region ‘devastating’ as bill passes upper house

The Guardian
Mojo ♻️Apr 30

Narrandera 2026: murky brown sludge from the taps that stains everything and ruins appliances. Residents are voting with their feet and leaving.
This future awaits Australia — the driest inhabited continent — in our lifetime.
We have plenty of water for massive cotton farms, thirsty almond orchards, and mining, but not enough to guarantee clean drinking water for the very towns that built the irrigation backbone of the nation.
Basic human right? Apparently not, if you're in regional NSW.
Sort the priorities and build the treatment plants.

#WaterCrisis #MurrayDarlingBasin #Water #WorldsDriestContinent

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-30/narrandera-water-issues-residents-leaving-town/106612706

Fed-up residents 'leaving town' due to murky tap water

When residents of Narrandera, in southern NSW, turn on the tap, the water that comes out is sometimes so dirty it stains their clothes.

WineMar 8

Fraud charges against Sunraysia wine grapegrowers Littore brothers dropped

Victorian prosecutors have withdrawn fraud charges against two Mildura brothers, who wer…
#wine #Australianwine #Australia #CountyCourtofVictoria #fraud #grapes #JindaleeRoadWines #LittoreGroup #murraydarlingbasin #perjury #RabobankAustralia #SupremeCourtofVictoria #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2545511/fraud-charges-against-sunraysia-wine-grapegrowers-littore-brothers-dropped/

The-14Feb 25
Climate change is drying out the ‘forgotten rivers’ that keep the Murray-Darling alive. We need a new plan
#ClimateChange #Environment #MurrayDarlingBasin #WaterCrisis #RiverProtection #Australia #Sustainability #WaterSecurity #Ecology #Headwaters #Drought
https://the-14.com/climate-change-is-drying-out-the-forgotten-rivers-that-keep-the-murray-darling-alive-we-need-a-new-plan/
Climate change is drying out the ‘forgotten rivers’ that keep the Murray-Darling alive. We need a new plan | The-14

Climate change is drying the Murray-Darling Basin’s headwaters, threatening rivers, ecosystems and water security. A new basin plan must act now urgently.

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Mojo ♻️Jan 19

The Federal Government has listed the Lower Murray River as a critically endangered ecosystem, in a move that has already threatened to spark a new political battle over its management. The designated area stretches nearly a thousand kilometres from western New South Wales, through Victoria and to the ocean in South Australia. It means the highly biodiverse region will now be granted stronger protections under environmental laws.

#lowermurrayriver #criticallyendangered #murraydarlingbasin #riverprotection #australianenvironment #biodiversity #environmentallaw #watermanagement

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/lower-murray-river-now-a-critically-endangered-ecosystem-will-be-granted-greater-protections/4l6gk819q

Lower Murray River now a critically endangered ecosystem, will be granted greater protections

The Federal Government has listed the Lower Murray River as a critically endangered ecosystem, in a move that has already threatened to spark a new political battle over its management. The designated area stretches nearly a thousand kilometres from western New South Wales, through Victoria and to…

SBS News
Follow GOLFDec 5
https://www.fogolf.com/1109975/south-australian-golf-course-wetland-is-breeding-site-for-locally-extinct-tiny-native-olive-perchlet/ South Australian golf course wetland is breeding site for locally extinct tiny native olive perchlet #bird #DrSylviaZukowski #ecologist #EXTINCT #GlenelgGolfCourse #GlenelgNatureTrust #GolfClubs #GolfCourse #MurrayDarlingBasin #NativeSpecies #OlivePerchlet #SaGovernment #scientists #Wetlands
Scott HamiltonAug 11, 2025
Great to talk to Ryan Carolan and @stuartkells.bsky.social about Commodifying Water: The systematic mismanagement of the Murray-Darling Basin, and what to do about it #water #SoldDownTheRiver #TextPublishing #MurrayDarlingBasin ryanacarolan.podbean.com/e/commodifyi...

Commodifying Water: The system...
Commodifying Water: The systematic and deliberate mismanagement of the Murray-Darling Basin, and what to do about it, Part One | Speculations and Reorientation

Water is a precious resource, and river systems across the world are under threat from over-extraction, mismanagement, poor farming techniques and climate change. In Part One of this episode, we explore the systematic and deliberate mismanagement of the Murray-Darling with Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells, whose 2021 book Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market develops a novel understanding of the financialisation of the Murray-Darling Basin water market, which is discussed in detail. We finish this discussion on the subject  of Post-Neoliberalism, which touches on novel questions regarding possible future ways to manage the Murray-Darling within a reformed global system. This will then be the focus of Part Two of this conversation.

NSW.BiodiversityMar 11, 2025

Quintessentially Australian:

"Bulldozers made quick work of the Murray Darling Basin landscape."
"Bulldozers flattened trees and grasses which were then burned"
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/satellite-photos-reveal-disturbing-change-to-iconic-aussie-landscape-065657701.html
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #nature #conservation #LandClearing #MurrayDarlingBasin #agribusinesses #PropertyDevelopers #governance #destruction #NSW #Australia #climate #incineration

Satellite photos reveal 'disturbing' change to iconic Aussie landscape

There are calls for an investigation into what happened across 5,500 hectares of land. Find out more.

Yahoo News
Mojo ♻️Sep 19, 2024
We've always called it the 'Mighty Murray.' But in recent years, our most iconic river has struggled to live up to the legend. In fact, it had slowed to a feeble trickle, sucked dry by years of drought and the demands of those who rely on its bounty. Then it rained. And rained. And, rained some more. The clouds that delivered such devastating floods to much of Queensland and Victoria, had one spectacular silver lining. The entire Murray-Darling river system has come roaring back to life.
#MurrayRiver #murraydarling #MurrayDarlingBasin #cotton #almonds #DriestcontinentonEarth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyuj3CCCa8U
Iconic river devastated by drought comes roaring back to life | 60 Minutes Australia

YouTube
BellingenNSWAug 31, 2024

WETLANDS IN A DRY LAND
More-than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, Emily O'Gorman

"What counts as a wetland, especially in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth? In the name of agriculture, urban growth and disease control, humans have drained, filled or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Only recently have wetlands been widely recognised as worth preserving for their diverse plants, animals, insects, and their human histories."

"Situating Australia's history within global environmental humanities conversations, O'Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes that transcend the nature-culture divide and to embrace non-Western ways of knowing and being. Only then can we begin to create sustainable relationships with, and futures for, the wetlands."
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https://www.mup.com.au/books/wetlands-in-a-dry-land-paperback-softback
#wetlands #RAMSAR #rivers #MurrayDarlingBasin #MDB #environment #biodiversity #SocioecologicalLandscapes #Book #EnvironmentalHistory #destruction

Wetlands in a Dry Land, Emily O'Gorman

What counts as a wetland, especially in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth? In the name of agriculture, urban growth and disease control, humans have drained, filled or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Only recently have wetlands been widely recognised as worth preserving for their diverse plants, animals, insects, a...

Melbourne University Publishing