Simply giving the Commonwealth more power won't fix the Murray-Darling Basin crisis.
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The controversy over the water purchase is based on an old story; the election has enabled it to be resurrected for a powerful fresh spin around the political circuit.
The latest Murray-Darling Basin scandal calls into question whether the government is using public money wisely.
For the Barkandji people, the crisis on the Barwon-Darling represents the biggest threat to their continued survival on country since the sheep invaded.
Neither of the two federal investigations into fish deaths in the Darling River include any Indigenous representation.
A decade of bipartisan research has provided plenty of answers to the problems plaguing the Darling River.
Crises in the Darling River have raised questions about cotton and rice farming in the Murray Darling Basin.
Mass fish deaths are a blaring warning sign for the heath of the Murray Darling Basin, but just as worrying is the sight of dry areas in the Darling.
Public confidence in the institutions in charge of the Murray Darling Basin has plummeted – with good reason.
Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in low-oxygen water. Here's what actually happened to the oxygen, and why we might see more deaths in the coming weeks.
Algae blooms have killed hundreds of thousands of fish in the last two weeks, but what exactly are they and how do we get them under control?
Farmers are calling for South Australia to ramp up its desalination plant to free up more water from the Murray Darling.
The new Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council aims to overcome a management problem faced by many traditional owners: the fact that major rivers flow through lands home to many different groups and languages.
Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.
As the health of the Murray Darling Basin is in decline, fish ear bones recovered from ancient Aboriginal camp sites can provide vital data about river health in the past.
Indigenous water rights have been overlooked for a very long time. A bipartisan agreement on the Murray Darling Basin Plan may change that.
The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been politically fraught and mired in scandal. But environmental monitoring suggests that the health of the rivers is indeed improving – even if it will take decades.
While many soft voters didn't think Labor deserved re-election, they were hesitant about the Liberals under Steven Marshall.
New South Wales has pledged to walk away from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, while Victoria's water minister has declared the plan 'over'.
A dozen leading researchers have issued an urgent call to action for the Murray-Darling Basin, arguing that the billions spent on water-efficient irrigation have done little for the rivers' health.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
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Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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PhD candidate, RMIT University
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer / DECRA Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Professor Environment and Natural Resources, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environment Law, University of Melbourne
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Associate Research Professor (Fisheries and River Management), Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide
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Professor, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
