Sold down the river : how robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia's water market

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Sold down the river : how robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia's water market

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how robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia's water market

Statement of responsibility

Scott Hamilton and Stuart Ellis

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Sold down the river

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how robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australias water market

Creator

• trueHamilton, Scott

Contributor

• trueKells, Stuart

Author

• trueKells, Stuart
• trueHamilton, Scott

Subject

• Darling River (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• trueEnvironmental degradation
• Environmental studies
• Irrigation -- Darling River Valley (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Irrigation -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
• Irrigation -- Murray River Valley (N.S.W.-S.A.)
• Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
• Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
• truePolicy sciences
• Rivers -- Australia -- Economic aspects
• trueWater
• Water quality management -- Darling River (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Water quality management -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Water quality management -- Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
• Water resources development -- Australia
• Water resources development -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Darling River Region (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
• Water resources development -- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.)
• trueWater supply
• Water use -- Darling River Region (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Water use -- Murray River Region (N.S.W.- S. Aust.)
• Water-supply -- Australia
• Water-supply -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Water-supply -- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.)
• Water-supply, Agricultural -- Australia -- Finance
• Water-supply, Agricultural -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) -- Finance
• Water-supply, Agricultural -- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Finance
• Water quality management -- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.)
• Agriculture -- Australia -- Finance
• trueAustralia -- History
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 per cent of our food production. In 2012, Australia signed up to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a scheme designed to create a market for its water and to safeguard the environment. But the Plan has gone horribly wrong. It has sold our farmers and rural communities down the river. It has contributed to appalling environmental damage on the planet's driest inhabited continent. It has allowed a ruthless market to form, exploited by traders who buy and sell water as if it was a currency like Bitcoin. Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells, both experts in public policy, have interviewed irrigators, farmers, Traditional Custodians and water traders to tell this disastrous story. Their expose brings to light how we have failed to protect our most precious natural resource. You can't understand Australia without understanding water. Sold Down the River is compulsory reading for all of us

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Writing style

• trueAccessible

Cataloging source

SALS

Dewey number

333.9162

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult