“Industry lobby groups, environmental groups and the Murray–Darling Basin Authority were using rhetoric that treats the environment, society and economy as if they are separate – that it’s either/or, that one cancels the other, that it’s a choice between production and protection.”
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| Cameron Muir |
A Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Cameron Muir, looks at the language that could save or condemn them our inland rivers.
“Preserved for the people for all time”, Muir asks: "Is balanced’ development really the best way to manage our inland rivers?”
Visit “Preserved for the people for all time” to read Muir’s essay.
He considers the history of the Macquarie Marshes beginning
the essay such:
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| The Macquarie Marshes |
“IN THE summer of 1944 one of Australia’s great environmental reformers toured the Macquarie Marshes, in north-central New South Wales, on horseback.
William McKell, the state premier, would have breathed the hot and humid air between tall stands of cumbungi as reeds rustled and cracked against the weight of the horse. He would have emerged from rushes to find open-water lagoons teeming with herons, spoonbills, pelicans and ducks, all feasting on thirty different species of fish.”
Thanks to Beneath the Wisteria supporter, John Lewis, to alerting us to this news.
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