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Where is the action? Talking about how to improve is not the same as "improving": CSIRO media release, 5th November 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Water thief charged: but only one of many involved in this form of criminal activity: Stock Journal, 28th October 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
One agricultural community accepts the grim reality and acts accordingly: ABC News On-Line, 17th October 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
BOM report on rainfall trends confirms what is evident: Bureau of Meteorology Special Climate Statement, 10th October 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
What on earth? - Managed Investment Schemes continue to suck the river dry to produce grapes no-one needs, while mature stands of productive fruit trees are ripped up and burnt: The Herald, 25th September 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
The water-barons are at it again, and the NSW Government turns its back : The Weekly Times, 3rd September 2008 [FULL STORY HERE] and [MORE HERE]
"Ending Australia's Water Torture": Op-ed article written at the request of the ABC by FWU coordinator, Ian Douglas: ABC On-Line, 16th September 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Cotton industry, having sucked the rivers dry, now targets ground-water: The Land, 5th September 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
The report that the NSW Department of Water should have waited for: MDBC, 2nd September 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Is this really a commonwealth? - NSW Department of Water increases Murrumbidgee high-security water allocation to 65% whilst the M-D system continues to experience record low inflows: Stock& Land, 1st September 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Twelve years ago the alarm bells were being rung: The Green Left, 15th May 1996 [FULL STORY HERE]
I'ts not just about river flows: Stock & Land, 28th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Metrocentricity and dodgy deals suffuse Brumby's water agenda: The Age, 27th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Privatisation continues: Cubbie to be allowed to trade water rights worth up to $100 million: The Australian, 22nd August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Brumby Government seeks to promote need for desal plant and north-south pipeline by attempting to shaft rainwater tank requirements for new housing: The Age, 25th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Tandou: Farmer or water-trader? - Our water-future(s) as currently proposed by Canberra: The Australian, 21st August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.... How Queensland's politicorporate club bottled up the nation's water: Crikey, 21st August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
"The Rise and Rise of Cubbie": The seminal article on the outrageous circumstances surrounding the establishment of of this vast irrigating enterprise: Phil Dickie, Meleleuca Media, originally published in 2000 [FULL STORY HERE]
Report confirms dramatic increase in volume extracted from the headwaters of the Darling by Queensland irrigators: The Australian, 21st August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Cotton where it should be: ABC Rural, 21st August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Fair Water Use agenda under discussion: ABC Rural, 18th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
The destructive anathema that is state-determined water allocation: The Australian, 16th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Toorale purchase would enable more than 50 gigalitres per annum to be returned to the Darling: Sydney Morning Herald, 16th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Notably absent from the list of "urgent measures" announced by the Federal Government to address the Murray-Darling crisis is any commitment to allow a drop of extra water to be released in the near future: ALP Media Statement, 16th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Molonglo dam proposal: ACT Government accused of deceit: The Canberra Times, 13th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
If the lakes were more visible to the Australian electorate, would Government attitudes be different? - You betcha: The Adelaide Advertiser, 8th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Australian Conservation Foundation supports FWU stance on Toorale, Cubbie, Ballandool et al: ACF, 8th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
An old article, but very relevant to current discussions regarding abuse of the upper Darling catchment, as the large, overseas-owned, cotton property,Toorale, is to be auctioned in the next few weeks: The Australian, 24th January 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Government water buy-back harvest, a drop in the ocean: The Australian, 5th August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Major implications for Murray water security if Snowy Hydro "privatisation by stealth" proceeds: The Australian, 2nd August 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Professor Wayne Meyer, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide believes that governments should declare a state of emergency: The Adelaide Advertiser, 31st July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Penny Wong still in denial and sitting on her hands, waiting for rain: The Canberra Times, 21st July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Tim Flannery calls for sea-water flooding of lower lakes as part of long term measures to save the Murray-Darling - while Premier Rann's inertia persists: The Australian, 12th July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Where is the leadership? The "Big Dry" has only just begun: The Canberra Times, 15th July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Volunteers work to save wildlife threatened with local extinction due to water crisis: ABC News, 14th July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Cubbie likely to be allowed to trade the $100 million worth of water given to it by its Queensland Government mates: The Australian, 10th July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Murray-Darling Basin Commission: Just one more salary-fest?: Alan Ramsay, Sydney Morning Herald, 12th July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Is this the best you can offer the Murray-Darling, Dr Craik?: Murray-Darling Commission media release, 10th July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
The world is watching, Mr Rudd: " Australian prime minister says water-saving plan will not end crisis on drought-stricken river": The International Herald Tribune, 3rd July 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
The days of cut-price water must end: Tim Colebatch, The Age, 24th June 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Sixteen Sydney Harbour's worth of water entitlements in southern Murray-Darling Basin alone: Is it any wonder we're in strife?: Dr Mark Siebentritt, Water Find, 24th June 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
Australia?s water problem seems to be quite beyond the nation?s politicians: Alan Kohler, 19th June 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
"A leaked scientific report on the Murray-Darling Basin warns part of the river system are beyond the point of recovery unless they get water by October" ABC Radio National 18th June 2008 [FULL STORY HERE]
?Millions down drain in wetlands battle? Sydney Morning Herald 12th April 2008 [ FULL STORY HERE ]
ABC 7.30 Report segment highlighting the Cubby Group?s dismissive attitude to the plight of the Murray?Darling and the downstream irrigators: [ FULL STORY HERE ]
From Murray Bridge, South Australia: ?I still don?t think people in the city and upstream have grasped the grim reality: the Lower Lakes and the Coorong are literally dying before our eyes,? Ms Hanson-Young said. ?People are crying out for help now, not in 2011? [ FULL STORY HERE ]
?The future will demand an agricultural industry that is smarter, more cost effective and not so thirsty. On this basis, it is unlikely that water-intensive rice and cotton will be part of the future.? The Age 28th March 2008 [ FULL STORY HERE ]
SBS reports ?The Murray-Darling Basin: A catchment in crisis? [ FULL STORY HERE ]
Cotton corporates continue their environmental rape, commencing AQUACULTURE whilst the Murray-Darling dries-up: The following is an extract from an article published by ?Cotton Catchment Communities CRC? on the 25^th March 2008. One of the stated aims of this development is to increase environmental sustainability ? do they really believe this ?! [ FULL STORY HERE ]