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Honest Politician Needed to Champion Removal of Murray Mouth Barrages

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For years now I’ve been writing about the barrages, really sea dykes, that block inflows from the Southern Ocean making the vast shallow coastal lagoons at the end of the Murray River completely dependent on Murray River inflows. Without the dykes … [Read more...] about Honest Politician Needed to Champion Removal of Murray Mouth Barrages

Are Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO Reports Reliable? A Note from Cohenite

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THE CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology [BOM] are the peak Australian scientific institutions. Various governments in Australia rely on the scientific conclusions from these government-funded scientific institutions. The assumption is that the scientific … [Read more...] about Are Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO Reports Reliable? A Note from Cohenite

Time to Rethink Basic Assumptions about the Murray and the Planned Water Reform

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TONIGHT the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Media Watch program put together a garbled defence of the consensus position on water reform and the Lower Murray, a position based on 'junk science'. The program omitted to declare that the … [Read more...] about Time to Rethink Basic Assumptions about the Murray and the Planned Water Reform