![]() ![]() Instead, we’ve had waves of nation-building irrigation schemes and agricultural enterprises, all promoted by politicians more concerned with short-term profits than long-term sustainability. The dispossession and marginalisation of local Indigenous people denied European settlers the cultural knowledge to manage the Basin sustainably. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wetlands, along with steadily worsening droughts.Īward-winning author Quentin Beresford delves into the history of the river system since European settlement, revealing Australia’s destructive relationship with the environment, and the willingness of politicians to ignore expert advice. The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. ![]()
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