Jennifer Marohasy

ACCORDING to Australian aboriginal mythology Bunyips are monsters that live in rivers.  According to Ron Pike, an Australian who has spent his life working with water from the Murrumbidgee River, much of what is being claimed about Australian rivers is as unreasonable as a belief in Bunyips: 
“The lack of flow volumes in the rivers of the [...]

DR Dennis Jensen BAppSc (RMIT), MSc (Melb), PhD (Monash) is the only member of the Australian Parliament with any training in science a PhD in a science discipline. 
[As correctly pointed out in the comments following this posting, my brother Jim Turnour, also a member of the Federal Parliament, has a Batchelor of Agricultural Science.  Other [...]

IN Aboriginal mythology the Bunyip was also known as Dongus, Kianpratty, Bunyup and Tumbata, depending on the tribal area. However regardless of name he was always evil and emerged from the water in search of prey as he sought to use his supernatural powers to punish evil doers.
While it is easy for modern man to [...]

REMEMBER the stories about how the Murray Darling Basin, the food bowl of Australia, was going to be lost to salt?  Headline after media headline told of imminent ruin from rising water tables bring salt.  
The Riverina, a once rich farming area in south western New South Wales, was considered most affected by this “scourge of [...]

ON a daily basis we hear the following two statements repeated in relation to water in Australia: 1. That Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth; and 2. That water is very scarce in Australia and we must take immediate action to conserve it. It is time we took a closer look at these assumed facts.  
If we [...]

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The report provides information on the state of our National [...]

Dr David Jones, the head of climate analysis at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, in an opinion piece, ‘Our hot, dry future’ has argued that over the past 11 years Melbourne’s rainfall has been about 20% below the long-term average   experienced declining rainfall over the past 11 years . 
In response, Dr Jennifer Marohasy posted ‘How Melbourne’s [...]

Rainfall data back to 1863 does not support the claim made by the Head of Climate Analysis at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology that there has been recent unusual climate change in Melbourne.

I begin as a trickle, of melting snowflakes,
High in the mountains as Springtime awakes.
I ooze from the sedges, and springs neath the ground.
Drawn by gravity, it’s downward I’m bound.
I’m one of the elements of antiquity,
The basis of life, I begin clear and free.
It’s water I am, the compound H two O.
They say I am scarce, [...]

The Queensland Farmers’ Federation have suggested that residents of Adelaide should use less water rather than continually demanding that more water be sent to South Australia.  According to ABC Online: 

“Executive officer John Cherry says 55,000 megalitres of water a year would be saved if Adelaide residents lived under the same water restrictions as Brisbane.

“Last year, Adelaide households used an average [...]