Maryanne Slattery
@mslattery1.bsky.social
Expert in water policy and management with a focus on the Murray-Darling Basin.
Director of Slattery & Johnson
maryanne@slatteryjohnson.com.au
Director of Slattery & Johnson
maryanne@slatteryjohnson.com.au
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Thank you to Matt Colloff and the scientists for evaluating the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Thank you to Matt Colloff and the scientists for evaluating the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
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Nah, you just need someone to teach you how to read it. You start to be able to see the story of how the flood channels changed over tens of thousands of years by the tiny variations. It's magical.
December 28, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Nah, you just need someone to teach you how to read it. You start to be able to see the story of how the flood channels changed over tens of thousands of years by the tiny variations. It's magical.
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‘Diversification of export markets is particularly significant to avoid Australian producers being harmed by trade boycotts or bans such as those imposed by China during the Morrison government,’ write. Tom Ravlic in The Mandarin AU #food #trade #auspol
Australia’s food security at risk without coordinated approach: taskforce www.themandarin.com.au/283047-austr...
Australia’s food security at risk without coordinated approach: taskforce
A food security policy paper recommends boosting the agricultural sector with an emphasis on environmentally friendly farming and other measures.
www.themandarin.com.au
December 6, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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WA's gas and electricity prices have tripled since 2020, after the WA Gov let Woodside export domestic gas reserves.
Now Woodside want a 50 year extension for their North West Shelf export terminal.
If it's approved, it will lock in higher prices for decades.
#auspol @markogge.bsky.social
Now Woodside want a 50 year extension for their North West Shelf export terminal.
If it's approved, it will lock in higher prices for decades.
#auspol @markogge.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 5:43 AM
WA's gas and electricity prices have tripled since 2020, after the WA Gov let Woodside export domestic gas reserves.
Now Woodside want a 50 year extension for their North West Shelf export terminal.
If it's approved, it will lock in higher prices for decades.
#auspol @markogge.bsky.social
Now Woodside want a 50 year extension for their North West Shelf export terminal.
If it's approved, it will lock in higher prices for decades.
#auspol @markogge.bsky.social
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Tourism employs about 100.
www.abs.gov.au/censu...
Doesn't show that the salmon farm should be shut down, but does show (again) that nothing in the Murdoch press should be believed.
www.abs.gov.au/censu...
Doesn't show that the salmon farm should be shut down, but does show (again) that nothing in the Murdoch press should be believed.
December 5, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Tourism employs about 100.
www.abs.gov.au/censu...
Doesn't show that the salmon farm should be shut down, but does show (again) that nothing in the Murdoch press should be believed.
www.abs.gov.au/censu...
Doesn't show that the salmon farm should be shut down, but does show (again) that nothing in the Murdoch press should be believed.
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Brilliant article.
There are some economists out there still pretending that the private sector is this great efficient allocator of resources that works best when govt's reduce regulations....
I seriously wonder how they have even learned to tie their own shoe laces they are so ignorant.
There are some economists out there still pretending that the private sector is this great efficient allocator of resources that works best when govt's reduce regulations....
I seriously wonder how they have even learned to tie their own shoe laces they are so ignorant.
How the Chicago
anti-anti trust revolution created the food desert www.theatlantic.com/...
anti-anti trust revolution created the food desert www.theatlantic.com/...
The Hidden Cause of Food Deserts - The Atlantic
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Brilliant article.
There are some economists out there still pretending that the private sector is this great efficient allocator of resources that works best when govt's reduce regulations....
I seriously wonder how they have even learned to tie their own shoe laces they are so ignorant.
There are some economists out there still pretending that the private sector is this great efficient allocator of resources that works best when govt's reduce regulations....
I seriously wonder how they have even learned to tie their own shoe laces they are so ignorant.
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"With the $1.36bn salmon industry supporting more than 5100 jobs across Tasmania and one in two jobs in the west coast town of Strahan"
This, by Geoff Chalmers of the Oz, seemed dodgy so I checked Census Quickstats. There are *20* aquaculture jobs in Strahan out of 300.
www.nationalagricult...
This, by Geoff Chalmers of the Oz, seemed dodgy so I checked Census Quickstats. There are *20* aquaculture jobs in Strahan out of 300.
www.nationalagricult...
Put Tasmanian salmon workers ahead of inner-city activists, says AWU chief Paul Farrow - National Agriculture and Related Industries Day
Australian Workers Union boss Paul Farrow has joined senior Tasmanian Labor figures in -demanding that Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek end uncertainty for salmon workers and put their livelihoods ahead of the “exaggerated concerns of inner-city activists”.
www.nationalagricultureandrelatedindustriesday.com.au
December 5, 2024 at 8:38 AM
"With the $1.36bn salmon industry supporting more than 5100 jobs across Tasmania and one in two jobs in the west coast town of Strahan"
This, by Geoff Chalmers of the Oz, seemed dodgy so I checked Census Quickstats. There are *20* aquaculture jobs in Strahan out of 300.
www.nationalagricult...
This, by Geoff Chalmers of the Oz, seemed dodgy so I checked Census Quickstats. There are *20* aquaculture jobs in Strahan out of 300.
www.nationalagricult...
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“The notion that Peter Dutton and David Littleproud are opposed to Offshore Wind because they’re born again environmentalists would be laughable, if it wasn’t so terrifying and damaging,” said John Grimes CEO @SmartEnergyCncl #energy #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-vows-...
Peter Dutton vows to scrap offshore wind zone, “rip up contracts” and sink $10 billion project
Peter Dutton vows to scrap the NSW Hunter region offshore wind development zone and the $10 billion project that would be built there.
reneweconomy.com.au
December 5, 2024 at 6:41 AM
“The notion that Peter Dutton and David Littleproud are opposed to Offshore Wind because they’re born again environmentalists would be laughable, if it wasn’t so terrifying and damaging,” said John Grimes CEO @SmartEnergyCncl #energy #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-vows-...
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"The NSW Government is far more focused on promoting coal than helping communities move away from it." - Rod Campbell, Research Director
Read the research from Evie Simpson, @adamchalksitup.bsky.social & @rodcampbell.bsky.social:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/nsw-gov... #auspol #climate
Read the research from Evie Simpson, @adamchalksitup.bsky.social & @rodcampbell.bsky.social:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/nsw-gov... #auspol #climate
December 5, 2024 at 3:46 AM
"The NSW Government is far more focused on promoting coal than helping communities move away from it." - Rod Campbell, Research Director
Read the research from Evie Simpson, @adamchalksitup.bsky.social & @rodcampbell.bsky.social:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/nsw-gov... #auspol #climate
Read the research from Evie Simpson, @adamchalksitup.bsky.social & @rodcampbell.bsky.social:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/nsw-gov... #auspol #climate
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Clearly Albo doesn’t believe climate change is a threat to Australia’s prosperity. 🤯
December 4, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Clearly Albo doesn’t believe climate change is a threat to Australia’s prosperity. 🤯
Thank you to Matt Colloff and the scientists for evaluating the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Thank you to Matt Colloff and the scientists for evaluating the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
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Time to prioritise the environment before mining @AlboMP
The MDBA should have been across these findings long before the reports release.
More evidence of how damaging the Northern Basin Review was.
Credit: Jamie Pittock & Richard Kingsford
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
The MDBA should have been across these findings long before the reports release.
More evidence of how damaging the Northern Basin Review was.
Credit: Jamie Pittock & Richard Kingsford
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline
The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Time to prioritise the environment before mining @AlboMP
The MDBA should have been across these findings long before the reports release.
More evidence of how damaging the Northern Basin Review was.
Credit: Jamie Pittock & Richard Kingsford
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
The MDBA should have been across these findings long before the reports release.
More evidence of how damaging the Northern Basin Review was.
Credit: Jamie Pittock & Richard Kingsford
theconversation.com/a-13-billion...
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It won't stop him.
Confiscate his land, however it won't make up for the decades of unmitigated land clearing with barely a slap on the wrist.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Confiscate his land, however it won't make up for the decades of unmitigated land clearing with barely a slap on the wrist.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW farmer fined record $1m for wiping out critical koala habitat for private airstrip larger than Sydney airport
Ronald Greentree and his company Auen Grain cleared 1,262 hectares of land home to 30 threatened species, NSW government says
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:34 PM
It won't stop him.
Confiscate his land, however it won't make up for the decades of unmitigated land clearing with barely a slap on the wrist.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Confiscate his land, however it won't make up for the decades of unmitigated land clearing with barely a slap on the wrist.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade
As Australia’s natural environment declines, Labor appears to cave to vested interests, writes Felicity Wade
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is highly concerning & the first real example of a SLAPP suit - Strategic litigation against public participation
#Santos is doing its best to frighten ENGO’s challenging any future development that may have environmental impacts
Credit @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Santos is doing its best to frighten ENGO’s challenging any future development that may have environmental impacts
Credit @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environmental Defenders Office to pay $9m in costs to Santos over failed challenge to Barossa gas project
The case, brought by the EDO on behalf of three Tiwi Island traditional owners, was dismissed in January in a scathing judgment
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 12:14 AM
This is highly concerning & the first real example of a SLAPP suit - Strategic litigation against public participation
#Santos is doing its best to frighten ENGO’s challenging any future development that may have environmental impacts
Credit @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Santos is doing its best to frighten ENGO’s challenging any future development that may have environmental impacts
Credit @lisacox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"The Australian and Northern Territory governments are subsidising the cotton industry by $42 million per year, as it is not financially viable with private investment alone."
The cotton industry says that cotton in the NT won't hurt rivers because it will be rainfed (dryland).
But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated.
Read about it here: 👇
territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated.
Read about it here: 👇
territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
Review of proposed expansion of the cotton industry in the Northern Territory - Territory Rivers
This analysis examines three main claims by proponents of an expanded cotton industry in the Northern Territory, that it: is a highly profitable crop, will create many jobs and economic benefits, and ...
territoryrivers.org.au
November 23, 2024 at 12:02 PM
"The Australian and Northern Territory governments are subsidising the cotton industry by $42 million per year, as it is not financially viable with private investment alone."
The cotton industry says that cotton in the NT won't hurt rivers because it will be rainfed (dryland).
But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated.
Read about it here: 👇
territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated.
Read about it here: 👇
territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
Review of proposed expansion of the cotton industry in the Northern Territory - Territory Rivers
This analysis examines three main claims by proponents of an expanded cotton industry in the Northern Territory, that it: is a highly profitable crop, will create many jobs and economic benefits, and ...
territoryrivers.org.au
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 AM
The cotton industry says that cotton in the NT won't hurt rivers because it will be rainfed (dryland).
But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated.
Read about it here: 👇
territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
But, our analysis shows that cotton can only be profitable in the NT if it is irrigated.
Read about it here: 👇
territoryrivers.org.au/report/revie...
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Never does. As @rgcooke.bsky.social said, it’s like trying to sell Playboy to people who have free access to hard core
We will never out republican republicans.
Democrats should be the party that helps people- and starts with those struggling the most for the common good.
Anyone missing this point should be fired from “strategizing” for the party.
Democrats should be the party that helps people- and starts with those struggling the most for the common good.
Anyone missing this point should be fired from “strategizing” for the party.
November 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Never does. As @rgcooke.bsky.social said, it’s like trying to sell Playboy to people who have free access to hard core
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This is an issue that Pacific Islanders pretty much have second on the list of concerns re Australia after climate change - and most Australia wouldn't have heard of it
Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...
Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...
Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia
The Pacific-Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is often presented as being beneficial to all parties—Australia, Pacific workers, and those workers’ home countries. In reality, the benefits are we...
australiainstitute.org.au
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 AM
This is an issue that Pacific Islanders pretty much have second on the list of concerns re Australia after climate change - and most Australia wouldn't have heard of it
Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...
Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...
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We can & MUST choose not to repeat the violence & failure of irresponsible water overallocation, blatant over-extraction & harvesting, rampant land clearing & polluting intensive industrial agriculture that has wrecked devastating & irreversible damage in river systems like the Murray-Darling.
August 20, 2024 at 9:02 AM
We can & MUST choose not to repeat the violence & failure of irresponsible water overallocation, blatant over-extraction & harvesting, rampant land clearing & polluting intensive industrial agriculture that has wrecked devastating & irreversible damage in river systems like the Murray-Darling.