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
Murray River
Honest Politician Needed to Champion Removal of Murray Mouth Barrages
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
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
Media Watch Under Scrutiny
MEDIA Watch contacted me on Friday with a barrage of questions concerning my work on the need to restore the Murray River’s estuary. Their line of questioning suggested that I was misleading the Australian public on the important issue of water … [Read more...] about Media Watch Under Scrutiny
Minister Caica Ignorant of History of Lake Alexandrina
Following the release of my recent technical report, Plugging the Murray's Mouth: The Interrupted Evolution of a Barrier Estuary [1], the South Australian water minister, Paul Caica, made public comment that Lake Alexandrina has been a "predominately … [Read more...] about Minister Caica Ignorant of History of Lake Alexandrina
About the Murray River’s Estuary: Full Text of My Address to the Sydney Institute
AT the very bottom of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin is a vast coastal lagoon that was once connected to the Southern Ocean. The region was home for the Ngarrindjeri, who wore possum skin coats and loved to tell stories. One of their storiesii is … [Read more...] about About the Murray River’s Estuary: Full Text of My Address to the Sydney Institute
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
