Episode 70: Kills in the Coorong Part 2 - Everything Else Is Speculation

Hundreds of thousands of fish were reported dead in the Coorong at the bottom of the Murray Darling Basin.  In Part 2 we explore criticism that Government failed to deliver water to the South Lagoon when they had the chance.  Featuring: Glen Hill, Commercial Fisherman Nadine Kelly, Program Lead…

Episode 69: Kills in the Coorong Part 1 - The Long Emergency

This week, we will be turning our attention to a part of the Basin we’ve never talked much about, but its ecological health is an integral measure in the Basin Plan, and its ongoing health is important for the Murray Darling basin, around the country and the world.  We are talking about the Cooron…

Episode 68: FLUSH! How cooperation can fix the water quality crisis in the lower Darling-Baaka River

People of the lower-Darling Baaka River are breathing a collective sigh of relief after a flush of 45-50 GL fresh water has began its journey down the lower Darling-Baaka River below Menindee Lakes. This flush is intended to push a slug of algae infested river water right through the system into th…

Episode 67: Incorporating Indigenous Ways of Being In Water Management

This week we continue our conversation with Dr Kate Harriden, Wiradjuri woman and Research Fellow in Indigenous water at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute on incorporating Indigenous ways of being in water management. 

Episode 66: Pelicans Die in Menindee and Learning From Indigenous Ways of Being

This week 30 pelicans have been found dead or dying at Lake Menindee, is this another event in the ongoing water quality crisis or a simply and example of healthy bird out competing the counterparts?  We speak to river ecologist and conservation biologist Professor Richard Kingsford from the Unive…

Episode 65: Ngaratya & Barkindji Bush Tucker

This week we continue the stories of Country and Culture from Ngaratya, the exhibition on display at the broken Hill City Art Gallery with a dip into the Water Watch Archive to share interview with Barkindji Malyangapa artist David Doyle & a special live recording of Leroy Johnson and the Waterbag …

Episode 64: Ngaratya (together, us group, all in it together) at the Broken Hill City Art Gallery

This week on water watch we speak with Zena Cumpston, artist and co-curator of the contemporary art exhibition Ngaratya (together, us group, all in it together) that opened at the Broken Hill City Art Gallery last week. The exhibition brings together six Barkandji/Barkindji artists including Nici …

Episode 63: NSW Connectivity Expert Panel (feat. Water Minister Rose Jackson)

Last week, the anticipated interim report from the NSW Connectivity Expert Panel was published with a stirring response from irrigators and environmentalists alike.  If you listened to our episode last week, you’d know that we had the opportunity to sit down with the NSW Minister for Water Rose Ja…

Episode 62: Water Minister apologises for Wilcannia weir debacle

We had the privilege this week of sitting down with NSW Water Minister Rose Jackson to talk through a number of state water management issues. And it has been a really big week of announcements with the much-awaited release of the Connectivity Expert Panel’s interim report which assesses the rules…

Episode 61: Ngarratja Warrkina - ‘All Working Together’

A new water quality monitoring project was launched in Menindee last week called Ngarratja Warrkina, which means ‘All Working Together’ in the Barkindji language. This project is a collaboration between the Barkindji Native Title Group, The NSW Environmental Protection Authority and the Department …