Draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan
One can only marvel at a “Plain English Summary” of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that’s virtually as long as the plan itself. But both, along with a great deal of supporting material, is now available from the Authority. As you’ve [...]
Quiggin on the Murray-Darling parliamentary committee report
Less buybacks, more engineering works – that’s what the forward to the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan recommends, in a nutshell. The Australian Conservation Foundation is unimpressed to say the least. John Quiggin [...]
Napoleon Newman’s LNP takeover
The latest in the Campbell Newman putsch: he’s bringing his own election strategists with him, and all LNP policy has now been declared null and void. The Election Team Leader needs a Clean Slate. Presumably to be filled in with [...]
Lester Brown on the food bubble
Lester Brown is never one to cheer you up. Recently in the dead tree version of New Scientist there was a short article on the food bubble, due to burst at any moment. The article turns out, for the time [...]
Wivenhoe’s floodgates open
A YEAR’S supply of drinking water will be flushed down the Brisbane River in an unprecedented attempt to save the city from another devastating flood. They are actually going to do it. Managers will then keep the dam at 75 [...]
Larvatus Prodeo Lifeline Queensland floods fundraising appeal
As previewed on this post, LP is sponsoring a fundraiser to assist those affected by the Queensland floods. We specifically went looking for a cause which would target funds to those who are likely to be already disadvantaged, and decided to partner with Lifeline Queensland.
Wivenhoe dam management
Unable to wait for the outcomes of the Queensland floods royal commission all sorts of people have been quick out of the blocks to criticise the management of the Wivenhoe Dam. An early one suggested outright that the flood peak [...]
The flood Royal Commission – lessons from the bushfire RC
It hasn’t taken long for the Queensland Government to appoint Justice Cate Holmes to head a Royal Commission into the floods. Her two direct deputies are former Queensland police commissioner Jim O’Sullivan, and Phillip Cummins, described as a “dams expert”, [...]
Open thread on floods
We now have a number of specific threads running on aspects of the Queensland floods. This thread is for comments that don’t fit the specific threads or if you want to comment on other current floods lacking a thread, such [...]
Germaine Greer wrong on Brisbane floods
There’s been some debate on this blog, across a number of threads, about the degree to which debating the causes of and response to the Queensland floods, and those in Brisbane and South East Queensland in particular, is helpful at [...]
Quick link: Quiggin on water policy after the Queensland floods
John Quiggin has some preliminary thoughts on the directions water policy might take after the Queensland floods.
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