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Fairness in focus: A new path for Australia’s water future
31 January 2025
Two new reports from Watertrust Australia are challenging policymakers to rethink water governance by placing fairness, equity, and justice at the heart of decision-making.
These reports are part of Watertrust’s wider Equity, Fairness, and Justice initiative, which aims to reshape how water policy decisions are made in Australia.
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Fairness in focus: A new path for Australia’s water future
31 January 2025
Two new reports from Watertrust Australia are challenging policymakers to rethink water governance by placing fairness, equity, and justice at the heart of decision-making.
These reports are part of Watertrust’s wider Equity, Fairness, and Justice initiative, which aims to reshape how water policy decisions are made in Australia.
These reports are part of Watertrust’s wider Equity, Fairness, and Justice initiative, which aims to reshape how water policy decisions are made in Australia.
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New NT report contributes to a groundswell for change
20 January 2025
A report released today claims modern approaches to making policy decisions will deliver better outcomes in the Northern Territory’s contentious water allocation debate.
Specialists from Watertrust Australia say that the NT is particularly well placed to embrace new, best practice consultation and decision making. Getting this right will create water policy that Territorians have confidence in and ensure freshwater is allocated fairly in the Western Davenport region north of Alice Springs and elsewhere.
Specialists from Watertrust Australia say that the NT is particularly well placed to embrace new, best practice consultation and decision making. Getting this right will create water policy that Territorians have confidence in and ensure freshwater is allocated fairly in the Western Davenport region north of Alice Springs and elsewhere.
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Introducing Chris Cumming
17 December 2024
It’s only with 20-20 hindsight that Chris Cumming can see her entire career led to her becoming a principal at Watertrust Australia.
Three decades of roaming through increasingly senior and diverse roles in the rural sector, working alongside and within the Victorian and New South Wales state governments, encompassing community services, sustainability and environment, as well as a not-for-profit focused on including communities, and then heading up a Victorian catchment management authority.
Three decades of roaming through increasingly senior and diverse roles in the rural sector, working alongside and within the Victorian and New South Wales state governments, encompassing community services, sustainability and environment, as well as a not-for-profit focused on including communities, and then heading up a Victorian catchment management authority.
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Equity, Fairness and Justice - a foundation
17 December 2024
Equity, fairness and justice.
Three essential words that underline how we live our lives; expecting or even demanding they provide a baseline to our interactions within society and the wider world.
But what if the definitions of those terms are unclear or disputed? Far from being locked down in dictionary definitions, most of our understanding of what those three words mean are strongly shaped by our broader world views.
Three essential words that underline how we live our lives; expecting or even demanding they provide a baseline to our interactions within society and the wider world.
But what if the definitions of those terms are unclear or disputed? Far from being locked down in dictionary definitions, most of our understanding of what those three words mean are strongly shaped by our broader world views.
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Optimism builds for collaborative next steps in snowy waters review
02 December 2024
A collaborative effort to find the best possible future policy for the health of the Upper Murrumbidgee has taken another step forward, with Watertrust Australia releasing a report of the outcomes from our recent Decision Sketch workshop, held in Canberra in mid-November.
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Potential Snowy scenarios take the next step
13 November 2024
An initiative created by Watertrust Australia, to showcase deliberative policy-making processes in support of a review of how the Snowy waters are managed, is gathering momentum, with a major workshop starting today in Canberra.