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Maryanne Slattery

@mslattery1.bsky.social
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Expert in water policy and management with a focus on the Murray-Darling Basin. Director of Slattery & Johnson maryanne@slatteryjohnson.com.au

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Maryanne Slattery @mslattery1.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thank you to Matt Colloff and the scientists for evaluating the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
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A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
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Kitteh Inbio 🌏🌡️📈🇺🇦 @angrilydespondent.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Nah, you just need someone to teach you how to read it. You start to be able to see the story of how the flood channels changed over tens of thousands of years by the tiny variations. It's magical.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
‘Diversification of export markets is particularly significant to avoid Australian producers being harmed by trade boycotts or bans such as those imposed by China during the Morrison government,’ write. Tom Ravlic in The Mandarin AU #food #trade #auspol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/12/2024
WA's gas and electricity prices have tripled since 2020, after the WA Gov let Woodside export domestic gas reserves. Now Woodside want a 50 year extension for their North West Shelf export terminal. If it's approved, it will lock in higher prices for decades. #auspol @markogge.bsky.social
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tourism employs about 100. www.abs.gov.au/censu... Doesn't show that the salmon farm should be shut down, but does show (again) that nothing in the Murdoch press should be believed.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Brilliant article. There are some economists out there still pretending that the private sector is this great efficient allocator of resources that works best when govt's reduce regulations.... I seriously wonder how they have even learned to tie their own shoe laces they are so ignorant.
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"With the $1.36bn salmon industry supporting more than 5100 jobs across Tasmania and one in two jobs in the west coast town of Strahan" This, by Geoff Chalmers of the Oz, seemed dodgy so I checked Census Quickstats. There are *20* aquaculture jobs in Strahan out of 300. www.nationalagricult...
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Put Tasmanian salmon workers ahead of inner-city activists, says AWU chief Paul Farrow - National Agriculture and Related Industries Day
Australian Workers Union boss Paul Farrow has joined senior Tasmanian Labor figures in -demanding that Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek end uncertainty for salmon workers and put their livelihoods ahead of the “exaggerated concerns of inner-city activists”.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“The notion that Peter Dutton and David Littleproud are opposed to Offshore Wind because they’re born again environmentalists would be laughable, if it wasn’t so terrifying and damaging,” said John Grimes CEO @SmartEnergyCncl #energy #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-vows-...
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Peter Dutton vows to scrap offshore wind zone, “rip up contracts” and sink $10 billion project
Peter Dutton vows to scrap the NSW Hunter region offshore wind development zone and the $10 billion project that would be built there.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/12/2024
"The NSW Government is far more focused on promoting coal than helping communities move away from it." - Rod Campbell, Research Director Read the research from Evie Simpson, @adamchalksitup.bsky.social & @rodcampbell.bsky.social: australiainstitute.org.au/post/nsw-gov... #auspol #climate
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Justine Bucknell @juzzyb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Clearly Albo doesn’t believe climate change is a threat to Australia’s prosperity. 🤯
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Maryanne Slattery @mslattery1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Scientists assess Murray Darling - ABC listen
The under-stress Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's biggest river system, watering farms, communities and wetlands in four states.
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Maryanne Slattery @mslattery1.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thank you to Matt Colloff and the scientists for evaluating the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
theconversation.com
A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
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Justine Bucknell @juzzyb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Time to prioritise the environment before mining @AlboMP The MDBA should have been across these findings long before the reports release. More evidence of how damaging the Northern Basin Review was. Credit: Jamie Pittock & Richard Kingsford theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
theconversation.com
A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
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Justine Bucknell @juzzyb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It won't stop him. Confiscate his land, however it won't make up for the decades of unmitigated land clearing with barely a slap on the wrist. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW farmer fined record $1m for wiping out critical koala habitat for private airstrip larger than Sydney airport
Ronald Greentree and his company Auen Grain cleared 1,262 hectares of land home to 30 threatened species, NSW government says
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Justine Bucknell @juzzyb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade
As Australia’s natural environment declines, Labor appears to cave to vested interests, writes Felicity Wade
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Justine Bucknell @juzzyb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is highly concerning & the first real example of a SLAPP suit - Strategic litigation against public participation #Santos is doing its best to frighten ENGO’s challenging any future development that may have environmental impacts Credit @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Environmental Defenders Office to pay $9m in costs to Santos over failed challenge to Barossa gas project
The case, brought by the EDO on behalf of three Tiwi Island traditional owners, was dismissed in January in a scathing judgment
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Justine Bucknell @juzzyb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"The Australian and Northern Territory governments are subsidising the cotton industry by $42 million per year, as it is not financially viable with private investment alone."
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Maryanne Slattery @mslattery1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The cotton industry says that cotton in the NT won't hurt rivers because it will be rainfed (dryland). But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated. Read about it here: 👇 territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
territoryrivers.org.au
Review of proposed expansion of the cotton industry in the Northern Territory - Territory Rivers
This analysis examines three main claims by proponents of an expanded cotton industry in the Northern Territory, that it: is a highly profitable crop, will create many jobs and economic benefits, and ...
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is excellent. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate
Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Never does. As @rgcooke.bsky.social said, it’s like trying to sell Playboy to people who have free access to hard core
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Adds to the reasons to shut down Beetaloo fracking #FrackOffLibertyEnergy
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Trump’s new energy tsar linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin
Environmentalists say appointment of Liberty Energy’s Chris Wright highlights US interests ‘driving fracking’ in Northern Territory
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is an issue that Pacific Islanders pretty much have second on the list of concerns re Australia after climate change - and most Australia wouldn't have heard of it Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...
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Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia
The Pacific-Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is often presented as being beneficial to all parties—Australia, Pacific workers, and those workers’ home countries. In reality, the benefits are we...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
We can & MUST choose not to repeat the violence & failure of irresponsible water overallocation, blatant over-extraction & harvesting, rampant land clearing & polluting intensive industrial agriculture that has wrecked devastating & irreversible damage in river systems like the Murray-Darling.
territoryrivers.org.au
Australia’s Great Water Grab - Territory Rivers
The Northern Territory is known around the world for its iconic free-flowing rivers. But the future of these rivers is at a crossroads, and they need your help. What's at stakeThese rivers support the...
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