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Water Quality over Quantity, Community calls for water quality over quantity in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin Plan review The Balonne River is the beating h

Water Quality over Quantity

Community calls for water quality over quantity, in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan review.  The Balonne River is the beating heart of the south-west Queensland town of St George, but here...
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Is a River Alive and a Koala a Person? 

Event with Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell in Melbourne, Australia: Is a river alive and a koala a person? It’s time to take a radical look at our ethical relations to nature and non...
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Australia: Where did the water go?

By Dr Martha Knox Haly.  Australia has a problem with corruption in water supply because we don’t measure or manage water nationally.  According to ANU research report in 2022, 200,000 Australians liv...
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Australia: Killing Sharks for Safety?

From Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell: Literally just don’t swim too soon after heavy rainfall. The water quality is shite due to untreated sewage and storm water, (also what bring...
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BLUE TALK: Erin O’Donnell

BLUE TALK with Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell, book author and Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Living rivers and the political rights of ...
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The Australian Myth of ‘Aqua Nullius’

Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell recommends this article:  How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater. Indigenous people have coexisted with Australi...
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Australia: Threats of Fracking Plans

From Blue Community Ambassador Dr Erin O’Donnell: “Black Mountain Energy’s planned drilling for gas is likely to have a significant impact on threatened species, groundwater and the...
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Publication: River Grabbing in Australia

New paper from Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell et al.:  River grabbing from the source: groundwater extraction and the self-perpetuating colonial practices of dispossession in Australia...
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BLUE DIGEST 25-07-2025

Today: Argentina, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Privatisation, PublicWater, Right2Water, Sanitation, SouthAfrica, Syria, Uganda,...
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