Cry me a river : the tragedy of the Murray-Darling basin
Simons, Margaret2020
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Click and Collect for Cry me a river : the tragedy of the Murray-Darling basinThe Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and crops, and for the people and towns that depend on it? In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray-Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change. Whether it is fish kills or state rivalries, drought or climate change, in the Basin our ability to plan for the future is being put to the test.
Cry me a river : the tragedy of the Murray-Darling basin / Margaret Simons.
Carlton, Vic. : Black Inc., 2020
150 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Quarterly essay 2020 ; 77
"Correspondence: 'Red Flag' Amy King, David Walker, John West, Richard McGregor, Henry Sherrell, Wanning Sun, Caroline Rosenberg, Sam Roggeven, Peter Hartcher" -- Cover.
9781760642280
333.91620994333.9162
English
369824
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 333.9162 SIM | Available |
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