Cry me a river : the tragedy of the Murray-Darling basin / Margaret Simons.
Series: Quarterly essay (Melbourne, Vic.) ; issue 77 (2020).Publication details: [S.l.] : BLACK INC, 2020.Description: 150 pages : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760642280
- Quarterly essay. Issue 77 2020
- Ecology
- Rivers -- Environmental aspects
- Essays
- Rivers -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
- Irrigation -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
- Water-supply -- Australia -- Management
- Water use -- Murray River Region (N.S.W.- S. Aust.)
- Water use -- Darling River Region (Qld. and N.S.W.)
- Watershed management -- Australia
- Rivers -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
- Australia
- Australia -- Darling River Watershed
- Australia -- Murray River Watershed
- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Environmental conditions
- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) -- Environmental conditions
- Murray River Region (N.S.W.- S. Aust.) -- Environmental conditions
- Darling River Region (Qld. and N.S.W.) -- Environmental conditions
- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Environmental conditions
- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) -- Environmental conditions
- Australian
- 333.91620994 23
- GE160.A8 S568 2020
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Magazine | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Magazines | QE77 | March 2020 | Available | Cry me a river by Margaret Simons | 061840 |
"Correspondence: 'Red Flag' Amy King, David Walker, John West, Richard McGregor, Henry Sherrell, Wanning Sun, Caroline Rosenberg, Sam Roggeven, Peter Hartcher" -- Cover.
Title from cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-114)
The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and crops, and for the people and towns that depend on it? In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray-Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change. Whether it is fish kills or state rivalries, drought or climate change, in the Basin our ability to plan for the future is being put to the test.
