Ideal time to monitor impact of river flows
Current river flows are providing the ideal opportunity to collate data on their environmental effectiveness. The community-based Speak...
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Shelley Scoullar
Nov 27, 20224 min
Wrong flood predictions tell a bigger story
If authorities cannot predict river flows several days out, how can we possibly have accurate predictions from over a decade ago? That is...
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Shelley Scoullar
Nov 7, 20222 min
Governments urged to withdraw from Basin Plan
The Victorian and NSW Governments need to withdraw from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, according to an advocacy group. Upper Goulburn...
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Shelley Scoullar
Oct 27, 20222 min
Do we really want to destroy communities?
Is there any other nation in the world that is prepared to deliberately put its citizens through the trauma of man-made flooding? This is...
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Shelley Scoullar
Oct 16, 20222 min
Adequate funding needed for carp and other measures
Controlling European carp is an important part of improving the Murray-Darling Basin environment, but should to be part of a broader...
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Shelley Scoullar
Oct 11, 20222 min
Protect our communities
Communities in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria are asking for Water Ministers to “protect us”, when they meet next week....
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Shelley Scoullar
Sep 12, 20222 min
Call for review into water management
The threat of more flooding in coming months highlights the need for an overarching review of Australia’s water management. The...
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Shelley Scoullar
Sep 4, 20223 min
Bush Summit raises more water recovery concerns
Communities in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria will take little comfort from comments made by Federal Water Minister Tanya...
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Shelley Scoullar
Aug 22, 20222 min
Bush Summit the right place to start telling the truth
As politicians and community leaders prepare to descend on Griffith, a community advocacy group is calling for a reset in political...
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Shelley Scoullar
Aug 15, 20223 min
Call for Ministers to support communities
A community group has called for a stop to the misinformation, accompanied by political and media hype, over water recovery under the...
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Shelley Scoullar
Aug 15, 20222 min
Time for NSW Govt to ‘step up’
The NSW Government needs to ‘step up to the plate’ and deliver on its responsibilities to regional communities in water management. That...
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Shelley Scoullar
Aug 5, 20223 min
Informed commentary would be welcomed
Why can’t we have informed, balanced and accurate political commentary around water policy? It is a question being asked by the...
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Shelley Scoullar
Jul 26, 20223 min
Speak Up slams Basin Plan reporting from ABC
An advocacy group has slammed what it calls “inaccurate and harmful” reporting of an issue that is crucial to rural communities and the...
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Shelley Scoullar
May 29, 20222 min
Concerns expressed over Nationals leadership
A leading community group is asking Nationals’ parliamentarians to “think very carefully” before casting their vote in Monday’s...
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Shelley Scoullar
May 23, 20222 min
Speak Up says thanks to Cobram students
The community-based Speak Up Campaign has thanked a group of Cobram students for their support. It donated Speak Up hats to the students...
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Shelley Scoullar
May 5, 20223 min
‘Day of reckoning’ is fast approaching
Regardless of who wins the federal election this month, a day of reckoning is approaching for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The Speak Up...
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Shelley Scoullar
May 5, 20222 min
Candidates asked about water and Basin Plan
Candidates across three electorates in northern Victoria and southern NSW are being asked to respond to questions on agriculture and...
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Shelley Scoullar
Apr 13, 20223 min
Build policy on solutions, not winning votes
The community-based Speak Up Campaign has joined the growing list of organisations expressing concern at last week’s Labor Party...
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Shelley Scoullar
Mar 21, 20223 min
SA must be part of the solution
The new South Australian Government needs to be part of developing sensible solutions, including in its own state, to challenges around...
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Shelley Scoullar
Mar 3, 20222 min
Local solutions, not volume, are the key to success
A CSIRO paper has again confirmed the need to look at local solutions to our river environments, rather than taking the ‘just add water’...
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Shelley Scoullar
Mar 53 min
Misleading propaganda a waste of taxpayer money
A community group has slammed an Albanese Government advertisement as “misleading propaganda”, saying it is an “appalling waste of...
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Shelley Scoullar
Mar 52 min
Fresh call to implement National Carp Program
Governments are being urged to take necessary action that will reduce the damage to river systems by European carp. A range of...
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