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Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77 - Couverture souple

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Simons, Margaret

 
9781760642280: Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77
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ISBN 10 : 1760642282 ISBN 13 : 9781760642280
Editeur : Quarterly Essay, 2020

Synopsis

Award-winning journalist Margaret Simons journeys through the troubled Murray-Darling Basin exploring the politics of water, drought and food.


The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and crops, and for the people and towns that depend on it?


In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity.


Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray-Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change. Whether it is fish kills or state rivalries, drought or climate change, in the Basin our ability to plan for the future is being put to the test.


"The story of the Murray-Darling Basin ... is a story of our nation, the things that join and divide us. It asks whether our current systems - our society and its communities - can possibly meet the needs of the nation and the certainty of change. Is the Plan an honest compact, and is it fair? Can it work? Are our politics up to the task?" Margaret Simons, Cry Me a River


This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 76, Red Flag, from Amy King, David Walker, John West, Richard McGregor, Henry Sherrell, Wanning Sun, Caroline Rosenberg, Sam Roggeveen, and Peter Hartcher

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À propos de l'auteur

Margaret Simons is an award-winning journalist and the author of thirteen books, including biographies of Malcolm Fraser and Penny Wong. She won the 2015 Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism and has been honoured with several Quill Awards for Journalistic Excellence.

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Éditeur
Quarterly Essay
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1760642282
ISBN 13 
9781760642280
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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