TWO of the most controversial issues that will face the Gillard government in the coming months -- the allocation of water in the Murray-Darling Basin and the carbon tax -- have something in common. They arise from legislation based on the … [Read more...] about Murray Darling Carbon Tax Link: Josephine Kelly
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South Australian Water Minister’s Foolish Statements About Murray River and Ngarrindjeri Culture
YESTERDAY the South Australian government yet again displayed its contempt for science and history by claiming yet again that Lake Alexandria is, and always has been, a freshwater lake.[1] I’m hopeful that the local tabloid, the Adelaide … [Read more...] about South Australian Water Minister’s Foolish Statements About Murray River and Ngarrindjeri Culture
But Jonathan Holmes: Your Report Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed and It’s Wrong
LAST Monday on ABC TV’s Media Watch the sniggering Jonathan Holmes suggested that there was something wrong with Peter Ridd peer-reviewing my technical report ‘Plugging the Murray’s Mouth: The Interrupted Evolution of a Barrier Estuary’. Today I … [Read more...] about But Jonathan Holmes: Your Report Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed and It’s Wrong
Time to Rethink Basic Assumptions about the Murray and the Planned Water Reform
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
Salt Water, Crocodiles and the Lower Lakes: In Perspective
JO NOVA has posted on the Murray and Media Watch with comment: “She [Jennifer Marohasy] wants to restore the estuary to its estuarine (salty) form. The end of Australia’s biggest river (the Murray) has barrages across it, to stop the salt water … [Read more...] about Salt Water, Crocodiles and the Lower Lakes: In Perspective
Watching Her Watching Them: Graham Young
Jennifer Marohasy has been campaigning to have the barrages – a form of dam – removed from what most of us would think of as the mouth of the River Murray. While much has been made of the fact that the Murray often doesn’t run into the sea, hardly … [Read more...] about Watching Her Watching Them: Graham Young
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.