AWW21 The River Runs Dry - Richard Beasley, Grant Rigney and Margaret Simons

The Murray-Darling Basin is dying. Despite its catastrophic
plight, and the devastating findings of the South Australian
Royal Commission, policy is corrupted, neglected or ignored.
Richard Beasley draws on his experience as Counsel Assisting the
Royal Commission in Dead in the Water, a book that is
simultaneously hilarious and deadly serious, and very, very
angry. Margaret Simons’ celebrated Quarterly Essay, Cry Me A
River (QE77), is both a portrait and explanation of our current
predicament. Grant Rigney is the Director of the Murray
Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations.


Chaired by Rick Sarre