Public Opinion (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As we know the rivers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin experience water scarcity because state governments divert too much water primarily for irrigation. This is the over-allocation problem that the federal government is struggling to fix. Richard Kingsford, the director of the Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, University of...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A WATER expert has warned that buying Australia's biggest cotton farm and its water rights for environmental flows would only marginally help the Murray River recover.
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Irrigators will be free to carry over their unused water allocations from the current financial year into 2010/11, the State Government says.
The Age (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Fearing he was dying, Frank Harton was so concerned for the future of his disabled son that he took a gun and shot the 47-year-old during a holiday on the River Murray, east of Adelaide, in February 2008.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Fearing he was dying, Frank Harton was so concerned for the future of his disabled son that he took a gun and shot the 47-year-old during a holiday on the River Murray, east of Adelaide, in February 2008.
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
State River Murray Minister Karlene Maywald says that a drought has resulted in a steady decline in the lake’s water levels and quality.“Salinity in the lake is increasing due mainly to natural evaporation and is predicted to increase further with the onset of warmer weather,” she said.But she’s wrong. It’s not “natural evaporation” which is to blame. Un-natural irrigation and over-exploitation...
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
More than 14 gigalitres of fresh water is being released into South Australia's Coorong, which has been hit hard by diminished flows down the Murray.
Tax cuts will go ahead: Rudd (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Harton shot his mentally disabled son in the face at close range while they were on holiday on the River Murray, east of Adelaide, in February 2008.Harton had feared he was dying at the time and was concerned that there would be no one left to care for his son after he was gone.The fears about his own health were unfounded.But after receiving several psychiatric reports and taking...
The Age (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Harton shot his mentally disabled son in the face at close range while they were on holiday on the River Murray, east of Adelaide, in February 2008.Harton had feared he was dying at the time and was concerned that there would be no one left to care for his son after he was gone.The fears about his own health were unfounded.But after receiving several psychiatric reports and taking...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Harton shot his mentally disabled son in the face at close range while they were on holiday on the River Murray, east of Adelaide, in February 2008.Harton had feared he was dying at the time and was concerned that there would be no one left to care for his son after he was gone.The fears about his own health were unfounded.But after receiving several psychiatric reports and taking...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Water allocations have increased by nine per cent, offering South Australian irrigators on the River Murray some relief from the drought.
The Age (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Water allocations have increased by nine per cent, offering South Australian irrigators on the River Murray some relief from the drought.
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The recent rainfall has prompted the South Australian Government to increase water allocations to River Murray licence holders.
