The NSW government鈥檚 water management plan is in crisis after聽its floodplain harvesting regulations were rejected a second time. Tracey Carpenter reports.
Tracey Carpenter
The ongoing聽injustices聽and dispossession of聽First Nations peoples can be seen in the devastating impact聽of stolen聽water rights. But, writes Tracey Carpenter, some changes have been won in Victoria.
Communities and farmers say the billions being allocated on raising dam walls is not a 鈥渟olution鈥 to the latest drought or to long-term climate change. Tracey Carpenter reports.
Tracey Carpenter reports that Traditional Owners and former Burragorang Valley residents are fighting to save Gundungurra heritage against the state government鈥檚 plans to wipe out their culture.聽
A new study by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority notes that聽water reform聽has largely failed to deliver for First Nations people, writes Tracey Carpenter.
A new ACCC report has identified major weaknesses in the water market, but recommends more of the same, reports Tracey Carpenter.
The New South Wales and federal governments say building new dams and raising the walls of others are the answer to the state鈥檚 water crisis. Tracey Carpenter聽outlines why this is not the case.
"Cry Me a River", the March 2020 Quarterly Essay by Margaret Simons, charts the course of the Darling River and its historic demise from an inland paddle steamer route to a broken chain of algal ponds of recent years, writes聽Tracey Carpenter.
Water activists will blockade the Barrier Highway at Wilcannia Bridge and other bridges throughout the Darling Basin on March 13 to draw attention to corporate water theft, cultural oppression and ecocide, reports Tracey Carpenter.
Despite recent rains, the water crisis of inland northern New South Wales communities is far from dissipating, report聽Tracey Carpenter and Elena Garcia.
First Nations people's knowledge and rights have been overlooked聽as聽the largest privatisation of water on the planet聽has been underway. Tracey Carpenter聽examines how the privatisation of this most precious resource 鈥 water 鈥 has enriched a few at the expense of many.
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