A new website, Myth and the Murray, went live yesterday. Myth and the Murray is designed to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy on Murray River issues and I’m hopeful that it will be supported with a newspaper advertising campaign – more on this soon.
In small societies, when one or a few individuals start to say something that others don’t what to become general knowledge a known tactic employed by many on the left in Australia is to simply ignore the new information. Shelley Gare explains how it works in this podcast…
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2010/08/death-by-silence
Gare makes reference to an investigation of the Hindmarsh Island Affair. Diane Bell, an American anthropologist from the University of Adelaide, was involved in the campaign to stop the bridge connecting Hindmarsh Island to the mainland and Bell is behind the current push for more freshwater for the Lower Lakes.
Listen to the podcast to get some idea what those of us advocating a saltwater solution for the Lower Lakes are up against.
Of course the Murray River has not been lost to salt, or drought, or over-allocation, and there is a simple environmental remedy for the Lower Lakes – letting in the Southern Ocean.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.