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To My Darling

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2017November 27, 2017in Nature NSW, Summer 2017Leave a comment

My Dearest Darling,

From the first time that I sat beside you in 1974, I have always loved you. Your peacefulness, your beauty, your generosity, your power. Gradually I learnt your history and came to know the people who have loved you since time began. The more I got to know you, the more I loved you – through the good times and the bad, through the floods and the dry times. From Wiimpatja I learnt a little bit about the customs of caring for you and understanding you. These customs had ensured that you nourished people with water, food, shelter, warmth in winter, coolness in summer, celebrations, stories and meaning.

Will the Basin Plan save the Darling River?

Posted by NPA NSWon September 1, 2017September 1, 2017in Campaigns and Conservation, Nature NSW, Park Protection, Spring 2017Leave a comment

^{Bev Smiles, President, Inland Rivers Network}

The Murray Darling Basin Plan, gazetted in November 2012, has a budget of $13 billion to fund a new direction for water management and water sharing in one of the world’s largest river basins. It is the most expensive natural resource management project in the nation.