Fraud charges against Sunraysia wine grapegrowers Littore brothers dropped
Victorian prosecutors have withdrawn fraud charges against two Mildura brothers, who wer…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2545511/fraud-charges-against-sunraysia-wine-grapegrowers-littore-brothers-dropped/
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.
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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…
Tanya Plibersek approved water plan without reading it, court finds
Former federal environment and water minister Tanya Plibersek did not read a major water resource plan before she…
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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.
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
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
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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...
NSW ecosystem degradation and science suppression
Mass fish kills as “natural events”.
The government is “elected to bring better decision-making and transparency to government in this state and that is what we are delivering across primary industries and regional development” Tara Moriarty, spokesperson for the NSW agriculture minister
“The public gets to hear the messages the department wants to tell them...There’s still a really strong culture of suppressing science and limited sharing of information within the public service."
"Even though scientists are supposed to be independent, there’s often pressure to stay silent on some research results...They "use PR narratives to shape the message into something they believe is palatable”.
“The environment would be much better off and our democracy would be stronger if we were able to share information about the state of our environment freely. Then people can vote after being fully informed about how government is managing the environment.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/murray-darling-basin-fishing-degradation
The ESA documents science suppression in Australia
https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/science-suppression/
Consequences of information suppression in ecological and conservation sciences
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.12757
#NSW #governance #PR #rivers #degradation #science #ScienceSuppression #ecology #conservation #silence #MurrayDarlingBasin #FishKill #NaturalEvents #NSWLogging #RemnantVegetation #StopNativeForestLogging #democracy #Australia
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