Benoit - the young Crow (Burringbar,NSW)
The Darling River is a long way from the Mt Warning Caldera Region. If you look at this catchments MAP for the Catchments of NSW and this Qld catchments MAP, you will see that the catchments of the Darling River do not conveniently fit within state borders of NSW and QLD . Eventually, these catchments flow intoVictoria and South Australia. This is the Murray-Darling System spanning 4 Australian States and finally flowing into the ocean in South Australia . To further compound the complexity, governments continually change the historical reference points for understanding this vaste system of waterways.
Money, Scientific Research , Reform processes , Government Initiatives and Community effort : the LIST is endless when it comes to the response to the management of the Darling River Catchment System. It is decades since the problems of water loss and farmland sustainability were identified by the Australian Government.
The history of these initiatives have all but been forgotten as the various personalities of politics and powerplay continually introduce new reforms, create new public agendas and frameworks, find another cause or cure to the issue, waste valuable community effort, time and resources in changing benchmarks and project support and sell off public assets to "fix" the issues.
Oh, now you might say - well what about Carbon Credits and Carbon Trading ? LANDCARE? Caring for Country? Catchment Management Programs? Greening Australia? Australian Conservation Volunteers?Rotary? Scouts? There is a huge list of already participating community volunteers and paid environmental advisors out there.
And I might say back to you - well it has been years since the National Landcare and Catchment Management grew from the need to address vital LAND and WATER issues within the Murray-Darling System, and other prominent Catchment Systems in Western Australia, Qld and Victoria. The previous Government sold chunks of government telecommunications to FIX this issue. YET still, the precious WATER of the Murray- Darling undergoes "stream stealing" by channel altering, land reshaping and other catchment interference such as Dams, developments, clearing, innapropriate land use and waste by monoculture industries that are fully supported by other government incentives and the PUBLIC.
Australian Commonwealth Water Act 2007 - at ComLaw, Attorney-General's Department, Australian Government
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Below is a not conclusive all encompassing list of Catchment links to the Darling and the Murray-Darling system. It is more a list to encourage a starting point to understanding the depth and breadth of this great system that once supported a fantastic number of living flora and fauna, while the original land Custodians of Australia lived and walked the land, ( before the European invasion of Australia in the 18th century and subsequent decline in water quality, species, habitats and adequate land stewardship)
- Beyond Native title: The Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations
- Recognition of Aboriginal rights, interests and values in river research and management: Perspectives from northern Australia - with implications for Catchment Management throughout Australia
- Aboriginal Law Bulletin
- Caught in the Act - ongoing research blog byKathy Stavrou - brief history of Australia since European occupation of NSW, Australia
- Indigenous Law Bulletin - Indigenous Law Centre, University of NSW, Australia
- Australian Human Rights Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
- NSW Dept. Environment and Climate Change - Indigenous People of NSW - this is extremely brief considering how long the indigenous Nations have lived throughout Australia and cared so well for its biodiversity and habitats
- The Murray Darling Basin - an overview
- Current Australian Government Position for Murray Darling System (2009)
- 1. What's in the catchment and where does the water flow_
- ACF - Murray Darling
- Australian Government National Water Commission
- River condition in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Queensland WaterShed - Drainage Divisions & Stream Flow Sites - select a Qld Catchment
- Australian Natural Resources Atlas home page
- Catchment Classification Project
- Catchment Classification_ regional maps- South Australia
- Catchment Mapping - Connected Water Website
- CatCon mapping facility
- map australian catchments - Google Search
- University of Melbourne Integrated Catchment Management Education
- Darling River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Darling River Action Group
- Data Library
- Department of Natural Resources and Water Queensland home page
- Develop and implement management options - Connected Water Website
- Dryland Rivers policy document
- Geoscience Australia - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Rivers
- Investigate and Assess - Connected Water Website
- Land Use - Australia
- Link to Atlas on-line mapping
- Maps - protected wetlands, rivers and river catchments
- National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms from Space
- Rivers - Assessment of River Condition - Queensland
- Set Management Targets - Connected Water Website
- Statwide map
- Australian Government understating Perth catchment rain
- WaterShed
- Australian Government Land and Water programs
- Water Regulations 2008 - Australian Bureau of Meteorology : Water Act 2007 & Water Information
- Australian Water Association
- Ganesha on the Murray
- Natural Sequence Farming
- Natural Sequence Association
- Biodiversity Assessment Darling Riverine Plains ANRA (Australian Natural Resourse Atlas) i am not sure when this was done
- ENIAR (European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights)
- Bluecray.org WATER and Darling River LINKS pages
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