Water reform for all: a national response to a water emergency

July 30, 2020 Matthew Colloff, Daniel Connell, Katherine Daniell, Quentin Grafton, Joseph Guillaume, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Aparna Lal, Virginia Marshall, Ehsan Nabavi, Jamie Pittock, Katherine Taylor, Paul Tregoning, John Williams and Paul Wyrwoll (Australian National University)

The following is an introduction to Water reform for all: a national response to a water emergency. Read the full report here. Australia’s water reform project is failing to fully deliver for all Australians. With the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

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Australia, it’s time to talk about our water emergency

May 27, 2020 Quentin Grafton, Matthew Colloff, Paul Wyrwoll and Virginia Marshall (Australian National University)

Dean Lewins/AAP The last bushfire season showed Australians they can no longer pretend climate change will not affect them. But there’s another climate change influence we must also face up to: increasingly scarce water on our continent. Under […]

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Murray-Darling Basin water inquiry ‘our last hope’, Australian farmers tell inspector-general Keelty

March 31, 2020 Mikaela Ortolan and Courtney Howe (ABC)

Acting inspector-general for the Murray-Darling Basin Mick Keelty is calling for a different kind of leadership to get the management of water right. Mr Keelty has been touring regional towns affected by the Murray-Darling Basin including Swan Hill, […]

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Why Australia needs a new water reform agenda

January 19, 2019 Ruth Cooper (Australian Water Association)

There have been positive changes to Australian water management in past decades, but new challenges have emerged that require a refreshed national water reform agenda. This was one of the main themes of the 2018 Peter Cullen Lecture, […]

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