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A better way to secure the Upper Murrumbidgee’s future
07 March 2025
The Upper Murrumbidgee River has long been at the heart of cultural, environmental, and agricultural life for communities across the region. Today, more than ever, its future depends on how water is managed in the face of climate variability, competing demands, and the need to balance economic, environmental, and cultural outcomes.
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A better way to secure the Upper Murrumbidgee’s future
07 March 2025
The Upper Murrumbidgee River has long been at the heart of cultural, environmental, and agricultural life for communities across the region. Today, more than ever, its future depends on how water is managed in the face of climate variability, competing demands, and the need to balance economic, environmental, and cultural outcomes.
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A turning point for the Upper Murrumbidgee
27 February 2025
The Upper Murrumbidgee River sits at the heart of a complex challenge – balancing water needs for communities, industry, agriculture, and the environment. The proposed Snowy Water Inquiry Outcomes Implementation Deed (SWIOID) review presents a rare opportunity to rethink how water is managed, to ensure long-term sustainability and resilience.
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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.
