Murray-Darling Basin

The Last Supper is a still life sculpture made by Ken and Julia Yonetani using groundwater salt from the Murray River. The image of the large banquet is chipped, moulded and cut from a 1.5 tonnes of salt into a three-dimensional “still life” masterpiece with the dimensions of 9 metres in length, 0.72 metres in width and 1.22 metres in height. The sculpture is of a nine-metre table laid with a variety of food on top, such as fruit and vegetables, lobster and fish and various shaped glasses and…

Natural Hazards Research Task Identify the location The Millennium Drought (2002-2009) was a period of time when much of Southern Australia experienced an especially long dry period. It was particularly severe in the southwest and southeast as they were they are the most populated areas of Australia. Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane were affected by drought constantly or at intervals. While these area in the south had severe droughts, the northern areas of…

watercourses or on alluvial soils due to the periodic floods. Ecosystem of the Red Gum varies across the state due to the climatic and geographic range. One particular Red Gum site is listed on the Living Murray initiative which is Barmah-Millewa Forest, one of the six icon sites in the Murray-Darling Basin and internationally renowned site under the RAMSAR Convention. Barmah-Millewa Forest is located on the Victoria/New South Wales border, the area is holding roughly around 6-8 state forest…

However, the Carp spread around Australia through the escape of ornamental fish. Now, carp can be found predominantly in South-Eastern Australia with smaller populations in Western Australia and Tasmania. More specifically, they inhabit the Murray Darling Basin ecosystem which is one of the most significant agricultural areas in Australia. The carp population is also distributed…

Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s comments that “it is time to make each level of government sovereign in its own sphere”, signals that the States of Australia will have greater sovereignty in the future, an unprecedented move that contrasts against the progressive history of centralisation, cooperative federalism and Commonwealth supremacy that began in the latter half of the 20th century and has continued to this day. Within the framework of modern day federalism two issues are pertinent; the…

The aim of keeping climate change within 2°C has been a main focus of policy discourse around the globe since the mid-1990s, a target that has recently been called into question as international bodies have sought to reassess the likelihood of achieving it. A rise of 2°C is significant because it was adopted by the United Nations as the threshold beyond which impacts from climate change are considered to be dangerous (Jordan, 2013). The 2°C target was established because it is the most…

HI5003 Economics for Business Tri3 2014 TOPIC • Scarce resources- which resource and in which country/industry are seen as scarce and what is being done in the industry or country. What substitutes have been used to overcome this problem ! 1. INTRODUCTION: (Dan Moynihan, 2000) Resource…

Australia the country that's nicked named the country that is down under. The country that was only discovered around 300 years ago, so it remained from human intervention for thousands of years. Australia is located at 250 South and 1340 East, Australia is classified as a continent, country and an island, is the sixth largest country (based on land size) following the USA closely, has a population of 22.13 million and is the biggest island in the world. The reason for Australia is…

protections in their constitutions, and these are framed or conceived to protect nature as if it were the equal of humanity and to protect humans as if they were part of nature (Johnston, 2010: 18). As visible through Australia’s exploitation of the Murray–Darling basin (Goss, 2008: 3), Aboriginal peoples have a distinctly different relationship with the environment compared to westerners who unreservedly accept the exploitation of natural resources as a normal feature of economic life. As such,…

According to Cooper (2015), oceans are a key role with delaying the effects of climate change by “absorbing heat and greenhouse gases”. Adelaide depends on the Murray Darling Basin for 90 per cent of its water supply, and a decline in likely to happen by 2070 because of the hotter and drier climates (Commonwealth of Australiac, n.d.). It is a well-known fact that climate change will lead to sea level rise, which will…