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John Williams, Wentworth Group, to debate Jennifer Marohasy, Australian Environment Foundation

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The Future of the Murray Darling Basin

Dr Jennifer Marohasy | Dr John Williams | Sydney

Writer, biologist and founding member of the Australian Environment Foundation, Dr Jennifer Marohasy will debate the future of the Murray Darling Basin with commissioner of The Natural Resources Commission, Dr John Williams.

The NRC reports to the NSW Premier on a range of natural resource management issues including land, water, and biodiversity. Dr Williams is also a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

Alarmed that public policy on environmental issues is increasingly driven by moral crusading rather than objective science, Jennifer seeks to provide a counterpoint in public debate.

Monday, 15 November, 6pm for refreshments, 6:30pm – 7:30pm – Talk including Q&A

PP McGuiness Library, Level 4, 38 Oxley Street, St Leonards, SYDNEY
Cost: Non-members – $11.00; Members – no charge. Click to register  or call (02) 9438 4377.

Eric Abetz Tackles Robyn Williams on Treatment of Bob Carter

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THE Australian Broadcasting  Corporation (ABC) is slashing the budget for its network of foreign correspondence* when more than ever Australia needs to be able to accurately and continually assess its place in a rapidly changing global power dynamic.

At the same time some local ABC journalists, like Robyn Williams from the Science Show, are peddling alarmist propaganda while denigrating our best independent thinkers.* 

At Senate Estimates in Canberra* last week, Senator Eric Abetz queried Managing Director, Mark Scott, on the treatment of  Bob Carter by Mr Williams  and in particular asked why the week Professor Carter’s new book was launched, instead of discussing the book, The Counter Consensus, the Science Show paraded a British journalist masquerading as a climate expert to attack a paper published by Professor Carter two years earlier. 

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Much Water Flowing to SA

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The director of Murray-Darling Basin operations for SA’s Water Department, Andrew Beal, says “This is certainly the best year we’ve had in a decade in terms of flows into South Australia”.  Read more here.

SA Government Cancels Wellington Weir

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The Greens have welcomed a South Australian Government decision to cancel any plans for a weir at Wellington on the lower Murray, saying the idea was always ill-conceived… the Premier said “What we now need to do is make sure that the new Murray-Darling plan has enough water for the Lower Lakes”.    Read more here.

From Rod Kerkhoven in South Australia

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I saw this one man from Adelaide University at Milang and I asked him about these barrages and he said that if they let the sea in the caravan park would have been flooded. He mentioned something about the Surveyor General’s Office telling the Premier that hundreds of acres of land would be inundated if the sea were allowed back in.   I suppose it has risen since they put the dam things in which was in 1948… They are all slashing their paddocks early this year. In fact it gets earlier and earlier and I have been here for 20 years…  One more thing:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0kCa61VSo