Prof. Heather Goodall - Conflicted rivers: water and land across the upper Darling region (19/3/24)

Drawing on decades of research with communities across the Murray Darling Basin, Australian environmental historian Professor Emerita Heather Goodall (University of Technology, Sydney) explored some of the histories of recent - and conflicted - water use on the upper Darling River and its tributaries.
Tracing the recent histories of these conflicts demonstrates new alliances as well as deepening tensions around the Boobera Lagoon on the MacIntyre River near Boggabilla and the waterways around Brewarrina on the Barwon River.
This seminar was co-sponsored by the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network (www.environmentalhistory-au-n..., and Prof. Goodall was introduced by Assoc. Prof. Ruth Morgan, Centre for Environmental History, ANU.