Issue No. 35 / June 2019 / ISSN 2200-1654

Women in Water Leadership graduation On 9 May, the new Fellows from the first national Women in Water Leadership Program graduated, at the Academy of Science in in the Shine Dome.

The cohort presented their group project, ‘the role of science in developing policy’, as a consensus position (photo, left). It was a creative presentation of their business case which highlighted two disruptions in the water sector – the first disruption focused on the importance of embracing diversity of ideas, especially from sectors outside the water industry, and the second highlighted the need to achieve water resilient cities by creating a national collective to help communities realise the true value of water.

There was even a musical interlude between the two! (photo, right) The Graduation was attended by the Board members of the Trust, Friends and Fellows. Jody Swirepik (Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder) was the Guest Speaker. Jody highlighted the importance of finding balance in the process of navigating a career and encouraged the graduating Fellows to be proactive in seeking new challenges and opportunities. By Ashmita Sengupta ………………………………… Honours to a Friend of the Trust, and to a Fellow In this edition Darryl Day is the Water Professional of the Year, Articles (starting on p. 12): the honour awarded by the Australian Water  Association at Ozwater’19 in , during the ‘Greening the West’. Simon Wilkinson  What’s your story? Bruce Campbell. Gala Dinner on 8 May. Darryl is Managing Director of  An unexpected and rewarding journey. ICE WaRM, following 35 years with the Northern Andrew O’Neill. Territory Government. Through his ‘transformational  Climate risks plague MDB reforms. leadership style’ and mentoring Darryl has had huge Jason Alexandra. impacts on young water professionals as well as on organisations  Selected bibliography of peer- and government departments. To see his passion for addressing reviewed published literature on the the challenges of ‘providing access to safe drinking water and MDB 2009–19. Quentin Grafton et al. sanitation to remote communities throughout ’, please News and reports (pp. 2–12): read his Letter from a Friend in Bridging no.18, Winter 2016,  A Word from the Trust’s CEO p. 18 (via http://www.petercullentrust.org.au/bridging).  Changes to the Board of Directors Currently Darryl leads new approaches for capacity development  From the Fellows Network overseas to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.  Programs update  Moves & New roles; Conferences and Dr Emma Carmody is named in the Best Lawyers events coming up; Recent news in in Australia Guide for 2020 in the environmental water & environment; Recent journal and planning law category. She is one of three publications by Fellows & Friends; named from the Environmental Defenders Office News of sponsors. NSW, which is a community legal centre rather than Acknowledgements; PCT contacts a big corporate firm. (Emma didn’t even know she’d  Acknowledging sponsors 2018–19 been nominated.) See  Trust’s contact details.  https://www.edonsw.org.au/best_lawyers_2019. List of Fellows & Friends (bold black font in the text) & Sponsors in this …………………………………………………… newsletter. PCT on social media: https://www.facebook.com/petercullentrust/ & https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6845223 & @PeterCullenPCT

A word from the Trust’s CEO Tom Mollenkopf

The federal election and the post-result analysis, celebrations or recriminations have consumed much of the news cycle of the past month. More about politics below, but first some news closer to home.

Thanks to your contributions, our amazing Bridging Editor, Ann Milligan, has again compiled an outstanding edition of Bridging. There are a few items that I want to add or draw attention to. Graduation. First, the Trust had a busy time in Canberra in the week commencing Monday 6 May. Session Two of the 2019 Women in Water Leadership Program was held, culminating in the Graduation Celebration at the Shine Dome on the evening of Thursday 9 May; our Fellows held a Professional Development Day just around the corner at ANU on Thursday; and following a joint Fellows, Graduates and Directors breakfast, the Trust’s Board met on Friday. My sincere thanks go to Jody Swirepik, our guest speaker at the graduation. Jody offered a wonderfully honest and illuminating insight into her personal professional journey leading up to her appointment as Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder. Board decisions. The Board meeting adopted a budget and business plan for the coming financial year (2019–20) which operationalises the current three-year Strategic Plan (the latter being available on our website for those who are interested.) In addition to the two core Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Programs (Science to Policy and Women in Water), the Trust will seek to expand its in-house or bespoke programs that will broaden our reach. It will extend its current post-program reflections session as a mandatory element of both the core Programs; and it will initiate an independent Monitoring and Evaluation study into the impacts of the programs.

2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the formal establishment of the Jody Swirepik, Trust (an opportunity for another celebration later this year!) but next Commonwealth year will be the tenth anniversary of our first Science to Policy Program Environmental Water cohort. A major event is planned for the 2010 Fellows next year, by way Holder, speaking at the of recognition, re-connection, reflection (and maybe a lot of other ‘R’ Women in Water words), which will be substantially underwritten by the Trust. graduation. The May Board meeting was also the occasion to farewell Brett Tucker from the Board and to welcome the Hon Karlene Maywald as a new Director. I wish to personally thank Brett for his contributions, support and insights; and I extend my congratulations and warm welcome to Karlene. Next program. As we conclude one program, the next commences. Applications for the 2019 Science to Policy Program closed some weeks ago and interviews are now being scheduled. The program will be fully subscribed, including with several scholarship positions. The Trust is committed to making its programs as accessible as possible and is seeking to grow the number of scholarship positions available. For the first time this year we are crowd-funding to part underwrite an additional scholarship position. (For those of us who earn enough to pay tax, note that donations are tax-deductible.) Peter Cullen Lecture. On the news front, I am pleased to announce that one of our own PCT Fellows, Dr Anne Poelina, will deliver the Peter Cullen Lecture later this year. This year’s event is hosted by the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University (in partnership with ’s Institute for Applied Ecology). The event will be held in Canberra on 20 November with the Science to Policy Program Graduation to be held on the following evening. I hope to see many of you there for both these inspirational events.

Now turning from news to reflections ... When I was a young man I was very interested in politics. I thought I knew lots (who didn’t … or doesn’t?) and that I could ‘make a difference’. I joined a political party, loved the debates, and during the election campaign letterboxed my neighbourhood and handed out how to vote cards. Ahh, the idealism of youth.

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But I was a bit naïve, maybe even for a 16-year-old. I thought that it was all about having good policies and a stronger argument than the other team. I didn’t understand the human and emotional side of politics (and I certainly wasn’t up to the cut and thrust.) I did not appreciate that it is not enough to be the brightest person in the room (which, by the way, I wasn’t) to be an effective leader. Whether in public, corporate or personal life, a leader relates to people and brings them along. Paraphrasing (or maybe channelling) Bob Hawke, she or he loves them. The Peter Cullen Trust is absolutely about good science and good policy. But we also recognise that leadership needs people who connect, who are genuine and who can convey their message in a way that resonates with others. Whether I might have stuck with my political aspirations if I’d had the benefit of some leadership training, I don’t know. Maybe it’s just as well for society’s sake that I didn’t. Or maybe Groucho Marx was alluding to an elected chamber when he said that he wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have him. Tom Mollenkopf Tom welcomes comments via [email protected] or phone 0422 631 876 ……………………………………………………

Changes to the Trust Board of Directors line-up The Board of the Peter Cullen Trust has announced the retirement of long-standing director Brett Tucker, and the appointment of the Hon Karlene Maywald as a Board Director.

Announcing the changes at the Women in Water Program graduation on 9 May, Board Chair Professor John Thwaites offered his appreciation to Brett after seven years of service as a Director. Brett has provided invaluable insights through his experience in , public service and more recently as a non-executive director at Icon Water. He also brought very practical commercial and financial experience in his role on the Trust’s Audit and Finance Committee.

The vacancy created by Brett’s retirement has been filled with the appointment of Karlene Maywald. Karlene is well known in the water sector in Australia and abroad. Brett holding a certificate of Karlene has extensive experience in the area of water policy appreciation acknowledging development and reform and served as Chair of the National Water the huge contributions he Commission between 2012 and 2015. She is Chair of the International has made to the Trust Centre of Excellence for Water Resource Management (ICE WaRM) and during his term as Director. was a board member with SA Water from 2014 to 2018. Elected to the South Australian Parliament between 1997 and 2010, she served as a Cabinet Minister from July 2004 until March 2010.

Guest speaker Ms Jody Swirepik with Board Directors Hon Karlene Maywald and Andrew Campbell at the Women in Water Program graduation on 9 May.

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From the Fellows Network Huge congratulations to the latest batch of Fellows who graduated this May in Canberra. Their presentation gave some well thought-out and practical advice that the industry should seriously consider implementing. The Fellows committee is now planning for activities surrounding two programs a year, so we need your help! In other ways you can ‘pay it forward’, use your skills for good, and add to the value of the Fellows' network. We're also working on our podcast program and a Fellows' professional development strategy, so get in touch if you can assist. Last but most definitely not least, we're keen to improve our communications with Friends and Fellows, so if you love ‘the socials’ and others have trouble getting a written or spoken word in edgewise around you, we've got the perfect job! Justine Nowrojee and Liesbeth Weijs Get in touch via email to [email protected], or phone during the presentation on 9 May. 0419877768. Elissa McNamara, National Fellows Network Chair ……………………………………………………

Programs update Help fund an Indigenous participant! It’s been a period of trialling new ideas over the last few months. Two weeks ago we launched our first ever crowd-funding campaign to raise money to support an Indigenous participant on our next program – and so far $1922 has been raised. If you haven’t donated yet and have a few spare dollars to donate just in time before the EOFY, why not donate it to the Trust! Your donation is tax deductible. Just go to https://chuffed.org/project/help- fund-a-scholarship-position-on-the-pct-leadership-program.

We have two Indigenous participants for the upcoming Science to Policy Program commencing in September, and with thanks to the Vicky Cullen Scholarship we have full funding for one. The crowd-funding will help us fund the second, so please dig deeply! ………………

Story-telling. Also in this edition of Bridging you will read about the fabulous workshop provided to Fellows by Yamini Naidu on the power of story-telling. And, as Susie Williams (Fellow and Board member, based in Kununurra) has shared:

”I opened my annual stakeholder forum with a story! The group comprised about 40 Ord irrigators and industry people – it was a challenging forum as we were also in the Supreme Court with them over water allocations! I had good feedback on the forum. I felt very brave for doing it. Thanks, Yamini, for the prep support. Go forth and story-tell, there won’t be a better time to start.” ……………… Nearly 200 Fellows. What a fabulous, intelligent, diverse and very capable cohort are the women who graduated in May from the National Women in Water Program. I was so fortunate to spend the entire program with the group this year, getting to know the participants, observing and supporting them as they traversed the unknown and entered into deep, personal learning. A privilege indeed and an exciting moment as our Fellows Network now grows to nearly 200 professionals from across the country, and nearly 60% of these are women. We can’t possibly know, or record, all the instances when our Fellows connect and advise each other, work together, and collaborate, but we hear these Prof. Tony Wong addressing the recent stories often, and about the important roles of the Peter Women in Water participants. Cullen Trust and the common experience and language that the Peter Cullen Trust Program has provided them in enabling this collaboration to take place. ………………

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Reconnection 1. We are so excited to announce that the Board has approved two new programs. One is a one-year ‘Reconnect/Reflect/Recharge’ program that brings a cohort back together, face to face, 12 months after graduation. We have trialled this with the two Women in Water programs, and in both instances the half-day meeting was very powerful, extremely worthwhile, and definitely not long enough! Therefore in 2020, we will commence the Reconnect/Reflect/Recharge program for the 2019 Women in Water grads and the Science to Policy grads as well. Fully funded by the Trust. ………………

Reconnection 10. It’s been ten years since the formation of the Trust! To celebrate, the Board has also announced funding approval to bring back together every cohort since 2010 in a ten-year Reconnect/Reflect/Recharge program, commencing in 2020 with the 2010 cohort. Each year thereafter will see each cohort invited to return for a few days of continued leadership development, a reflection on the last ten years and a renewal of vision and aspirations for their future role in the water & environment sector in Australia. We believe we might be the only leadership program in Australia to offer this unique longitudinal impact assessment. ……………… WSAA. Finally, June sees the final face-to-face gathering of the young leaders from the WSAA Personal Development Program. This last session concludes 9 months of working with these six inspiring young professionals from water utilities. It has been so rewarding to see them willingly challenge and push themselves out of their comfort zones around their leadership styles and behaviours. We are thrilled to be partnering with WSAA again over 2019–2020 on this applied coaching and learning program. Kate MacMaster, Programs Director ……………………………………………………

NEWS of Friends and Fellows and Sponsors MOVES & NEW ROLES Alison King writes: After 7 years of enjoying the warmer climes of Darwin, Assoc. Prof. Alison King has moved back down south to La Trobe University, Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, Albury-Wodonga. Alison is now on a joint appointment with both La Trobe and Charles Darwin University (for 2 years), and is trying balance the two different hats of the role! This move allows both time to complete some large ongoing research projects up north, and also develop new and exciting projects based at La Trobe. The family and I moved in January which was warm, but the foggy starts and chilly mornings of the last few weeks have been a big challenge! ………………

Elissa McNamara writes: I have started a new role at Infrastructure Victoria: Project Director Resource Recovery & Recycling Advice. One of Infrastructure Victoria’s core roles is to provide written advice to government on specific infrastructure matters. The Government is seeking advice from Infrastructure Victoria on the infrastructure that would be required and the role for government in providing support to: • Develop Victoria’s re-processing sector for recycled material, particularly those that currently rely heavily on overseas markets, such as plastics. • Better enable the use of products containing recycled materials in a variety of Victorian industries, such as manufacturing, construction and agriculture. • Support a waste to energy sector that prioritises the extraction of recyclable material and recovers energy only from the residual waste (i.e. without diverting waste from reuse or recycling). • Support high levels of resource recovery for organics, particularly food organics. ……………… Dr Christobel Ferguson writes: I have started a new role with Water Research Australia. I started in April and am working as a Research Manager, still based in Sydney. See the WaterRA website, www.waterra.com.au, for more information. ………………

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Dr Andrew O’Neill was recently appointed as General Manager at Healthy Land and Water, and is responsible for the operations of the business, such as the iconic Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program, Water by Design and all of the operations for South East Queensland’s regional NRM body. Andrew brings his technical expertise in urban water management with his work in leadership and capacity building to the role and says that he’s privileged to have just about the best job that he could imagine, and looks forward to leading such a great team working on a vital mission for the region. ………………

CONFERENCES and EVENTS COMING UP

The annual Tasmanian AWA ‘Where the Waters Meet’ Conference Kate Guard writes: ‘Where the Waters Meet’, the annual Tasmanian state conference of the Australian Water Association, will be held on 31 July 2019. EOIs close on 12 June 2019.

After the success of last year’s conference and trade exhibition, this year’s conference will again be held in the Plenary and Tasman rooms of Wrest Point Convention Centre, featuring a split stream program to enable greater depth of content in topical areas and more opportunity for presenters. Potential theme areas include: • Community and stakeholders, • Diversity and inclusion, • Environment, • Transformational technology, • Infrastructure innovation, • Climate adaptation, • Asset and resource management. For details, see https://www.awa.asn.au/Shared_Content/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=TASWTWM19&W ebsiteKey=9dc929a7-973a-452a-8ebd-7ac0870e5ba9 ………………

REMINDER: Abstracts due by 31 July for the World Water Congress 2020 in South Korea

Abstracts (presentations) need to be submitted before 31 July 2019 for the Water Resources Association’s World Water Congress 2020. For details, see www.worldwatercongress.com. If you have any questions regarding the event, contact Dr Gary Jones at: [email protected] ……………… MODSIM: 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 1–6 December, Canberra. Submissions are due by 31 July.

Theme: Supporting evidence-based decision making: the role of modelling and simulation. Congress convenor: Dr Sondoss Elsawah, The University of NSW, Canberra. See https://mssanz.org.au/modsim2019/ ……………… 22nd International RiverSymposium, 20–24 October, Brisbane https://riversymposium.com/2019-riversymposium/. The theme for the 22nd International RiverSymposium is ‘Resilient Rivers’ – that is, the capacity of rivers and communities to recover to a healthy condition after disturbances such as extreme weather events. Emeritus Professor Angela Arthington, a member of the organising committee, says they “received many good Abstracts across a wide range of themes. It should be another great symposium.” An outline of the tentative program is available at the RiverSymposium website. ……………… Leadership Lunches program for 2019 Chris Arnott writes: The PCT Leadership Lunches started this week in Melbourne. We have a total of 7 lunches confirmed: 5 in Melbourne and 2 in Sydney. Here is the current list of speakers, dates and locations. All the lunches run from 12 to 2 pm, and are a chance to reconnect with Fellows (and Friends) and continue your leadership journey.

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• Denis Flett, Chairperson, Victorian Environmental Water Holder: Wednesday 5 June 2019, Melbourne CBD • Dr Erin O’Donnell, author of Legal Rights for Rivers, and Birrarung Council member: Tuesday 2 July 2019, Melbourne CBD • Grant Barnes, Chief Regulatory Officer, Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR): Wednesday 7 August, Sydney CBD • Tracey Slatter, Managing Director, Barwon Water: Wednesday 21 August, Melbourne CBD • Damian Wells, Executive Director – Regulatory Capability, Engagement & Legal at Environment Protection Authority, Victoria: Tuesday 2 September 2019, Melbourne CBD • Professor Cameron Holley, University of : Thursday 19 September 2019, Sydney CBD • David Ryan, Managing Director, City West Water: Wednesday 2 October 2019, Melbourne CBD. As many of you know, the Leadership Lunch series has been running since 2013, with a range of thought-provoking speakers. The purpose of the lunches is to learn from leaders, and to grow and strengthen the Fellows network. Speakers present more of a conversation or Q&A than a speech, and typically speak about:

• Their leadership journey including set-backs and how they’ve come through those; • Their reflections on the water sector: lessons from history, current state of play, etc.; • How best to bring science and evidence into the policy and political arena to the best effect. Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Lunches are small gatherings with interesting, friendly and lively discussion (under the Chatham House rule) led by some of Australia’s most informed people in the water and natural resources sector, while enjoying a pleasant lunch, mineral water and coffee. Each lunch is limited to 12 attendees, allocated on a first-in basis, based upon payments received in the Peter Cullen Trust bank account. For queries or if you can suggest other speakers, please contact me, [email protected], ph. 0420 313 906. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at these lunches. ……………… Annual Peter Cullen Lecture, given by Dr Anne Poelina, 20 November 2019

Save the date! 20 November, 6 pm, Academy of Science, Canberra: “Rivers’ talking: are the humans listening?”. As mentioned in ‘Word from the CEO’ (p. 2), this year’s annual lecture in memory of the late Professor Peter Cullen AO is sponsored by the Australian Rivers Institute (Griffith University), the Institute for Applied Ecology (University of Canberra) and the Peter Cullen Trust. ………………

RECENT NEWS from Fellows and Friends in water & environment Dr Emma Carmody writes: The Sydney University MDB forum, ‘Disaster in the Murray–Darling Basin: explanations & consequences’ (9 May), went well: 220 people attended and we’ve received positive feedback from various attendees. It was covered by Sky News and a podcast is available on the Sydney Uni website here: https://sydney.edu.au/law/news-and-events/podcasts.html ……………… Suzy Nethercott-Watson, our Deputy Board Chair, has started a website to support people who, like her, care for injured wildlife. Two Green Threads (https://twogreenthreads.org/) aims to help wildlife carers care for their own wellbeing as well as that of their patients, so as to build resilience and further benefit both their inner selves and the animals in their care. The site is “starting a much-needed conversation about how to support the wildlife carer community, and will grow by collaborating with the volunteers powering this much needed service”. ……………… Dr Graham Harris writes: I’ve been in Venice for 3 months, working on a book about why we’re not doing anything about climate change, or river restoration, etc. The first draft has 217 pages, 100,000 words and over 500 footnotes. This book is not about science: it is about aesthetics, ethics, economics, sociology – even poetry and literature. At the moment the book is called ‘The

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view from somewhere’, being a reference to the fact that Thomas Nagel famously called science the ‘view from nowhere’! It’ll be next year before it is published. Even in the frequent rain, Venice is as beguiling and beautiful as ever. My photo shows Basilica San Marco floodlit and St Mark’s Square partly underwater at the high tide, one night recently!

……………… Dr Declan Page writes that he was recently awarded a Ruby Payne Scott travel award to travel to attend the International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge 10, in Madrid, Spain. While there he led a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) sponsored workshop on ‘The development of a Managed Aquifer Recharge community of practice for South America’ (photo below). The workshop was delivered in a mix of English and Spanish, predominantly English. Declan plans to give a second workshop in Santiago, Chile on 28 August 2019.

Declan also reports: The CSIRO research group recently also began a new project to develop Managed Aquifer Recharge guidelines for Chile (based on the Australian ones) with a focus on improving agricultural productivity and preventing further decline in groundwater resources. ……………… Dr Stacey Hamilton writes: The WA Chapter [of the PCT] is now in the process of being set up, now we have a few more Fellows. Our first catch- up was held in early May where Susie Williams, Kathleen Broderick and myself met over breakfast to discuss how we can grow the WA network. One challenge we face is the tyranny of distance, being the largest State – but I’m sure we’ll make it work. If you are in WA and haven’t been contacted by myself, please let me know. ………………

Long-time Friend of the PCT, Tony McAlary, was a guest at a two-day event in April hosted by Cotton Australia, Auscott Cotton gin at Warren, and growers. Members of the garment industry, people from major brands and retail chains and stores took part in this visit to the Macquarie Valley Susie (left), Kathleen to see ‘the two ends of the cotton supply chain’, including the gin, and (right) & Stacey. cotton in the field and being picked. The Land’s report (https://www.theland.com.au/story/6061032/picking-for-best-brands/)

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says that Mr McAlary, who had ‘funded the Warren Aboriginal Youth Foundation to help local kids into employment’ and ‘was one of the first cotton farmers in the region’, told the group ‘the social story of cotton’. ……………… Adjunct Professor Kathleen Bowmer writes: I have just completed facilitating a series on ‘Sustainability – Behind the News’ for University of the Third Age here in Wagga Wagga. I try to involve my audience in discussion and stimulate them with short handouts and YouTube videos. We covered SDGs, energy and climate change, affluence and poverty, waste management including pollution and plastics, water including the Menindee fish kill and the Basin Plan, etc. A heady (and exhausting) mix of science, policy and politics! ………………

Professor Nick Schofield writes: The new Australia-Mekong Water Facility is now active. This 4- year initiative funded by DFAT is managed by the Australian Water Partnership (AWP). The AMWF aims to enhance existing water-related partnerships with the governments of the Mekong region. At this year’s Mekong River Commission forum, as part of a Mekong Water Data Initiative contributing to the AWMF, Australia was invited to deliver a keynote presentation on the Murray- Darling Basin as an example of transboundary governance. If you are at SIWI World Water Week, Stockholm, 25–30 August, please contact Marian Neal to be part of the Australian social activities, and visit the Australia booth jointly hosted by DFAT, AWP and Water for Women. We welcome AWP Partners to use the booth as your meeting point. See https://waterpartnership.org.au/event/stockholm-world-water-week-2019/ ………………

Michael Wrathall is quoted in The Land article ‘Macquarie at critical drought status as river communities meet’ (https://www.theland.com.au/story/6185735/all-hands-to-wheel-in-nsw-river- crisis/), saying: “we are now in unprecedented territory. NSW water storages continue to fall with close to 100 per cent of the state now affected by drought. We need to protect the remaining water in our river systems as there is no significant rain or inflows predicted. … Our priority is to ensure that sufficient water is available for critical water needs.” Michael is Drought Coordinator for NSW Department of Industry – Water. The article reports these drought stages: ‘Macquarie - Stage 4 (critical) ; Border Rivers, Gwydir, Peel, and Belubula - Stage 3 (severe); Murray, Murrumbidgee and Lachlan- Stage 2 (emerging) ; the Lower Darling, Lower Namoi and Barwon- Darling continue on the highest level - Stage 4 (critical)’. ………………

Bradley Moggridge is a co-author on the article ‘As the dust of the election settles, Australia's wildlife still needs a pathway for recovery’. See http://theconversation.com/as-the-dust-of-the- election-settles--wildlife-still-needs-a-pathway-for-recovery-117406, in The Conversation 27 May 2019. ……………… Dr Heather McGinness and Assoc. Prof. Alison King have called for careful planning and proactive management regarding the timing and locations of control actions for the pest invasive fish, common carp. They have called for potential foodweb and water quality effects of sudden mass mortality of carp to be researched and managed in a way that considers fish-eating animals and other animals that are dependent on aquatic habitats and food sources. See the article on ABC News online, 27 May, at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-27/carp-control-plan-not- ready/11130326. (See also two papers on this in the Publications section below.) ……………… Professor Ross Thompson is one of 53 international authors on the paper ‘Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems’ published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on 20 May 2019. The paper results from analysis of a database of more than 200,000 feeding links between over 5000 species in terrestrial and aquatic food webs. Ross says (on Twitter, @ProfRossatUC) it is ‘a critical reminder of the need to protect our precious top predators’. ………………

Dr Cuan Petheram is one of three CSIRO scientists who delivered a webinar on 4 June afternoon for ICE WaRM, on: ‘Assessing the water and agricultural resources of northern Australia’. ………………

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Professor John Thwaites (see photo) was Chair of the Ozwater’19 organising committee. In his closing remarks about this successful conference (4700 delegates) on the theme ‘Transforming our World’, John said: “It’s not enough to just talk about it, you have to do it. If we’re going to achieve change, either in our work or home, we need motivation and we need to know how to do it.” See http://ozwater.org/final-thoughts-on- ozwater19

John tweeted (@jwthwaites, May 8) ‘Ozwater Conference a huge success. More than 4000 took part. Key lesson: to achieve the SDGs and a fairer and better world we need big transformations in water, energy, food, health, education and equity. …’ ………………

Murray-Darling Basin academic papers. Following the flurry of articles earlier this year concerning water resources and fish kills in the Darling River, Professor Quentin Grafton and eight colleagues have compiled a ‘Selected Annotated Bibliography of Peer-Reviewed, Published Literature (2009–2019) on the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’, as a useful reference. The bibliography is published in full on the Peter Cullen Trust website as a useful resource, at http://www.petercullentrust.org.au/other-publications/. Meanwhile, the same list (but without abstracts) is included at the end of the Articles section of this edition of Bridging. ……………… A future-ready Murray-Darling Basin: Beyond 2030. Dr Ashmita Sengupta writes: On 14–15 March 2019, CSIRO hosted a forum at the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. The Forum sought to bring together leading thinkers to collectively: • initiate a constructive dialogue on the longer-term (beyond 2030) future priorities and knowledge needs of the Murray-Darling Basin, • to identify strategic priorities and knowledge needs for the future, and • to generate support for longer-term collaboration to develop and invest in an understanding of a Future Ready Murray-Darling Basin: Beyond 2030. Carmel Pollino, Tanya Doody, and Ashmita Sengupta played instrumental roles in the organisation of this event that had an attendance of 100 people over the 2 days. Participants were drawn from academia, government and private industry. Discussions were focused on the future changes; what a future-ready Basin looks like; and what actions we can undertake now. The forum identified that the path forward towards a Future-ready Basin will require: • a deeper understanding of the global drivers and their effects; • better and transparent engagement with the communities with investments in listening to the Aboriginal voices of the MDB; and • strategic investments in new knowledge and technologies toward the development of a systems understanding of the Basin. ……………… ‘The water is not being wasted’: Dr Anne Poelina, chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, can be heard on ABC radio, speaking for Traditional Owners of the Fitzroy River in calling for ‘good science’ in the debate over Fitzroy waters. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/kimberley/programs/breakfast/anne-poelina/11160014. ……………… Dr Siwan Lovett with her Australian River Restoration Centre colleagues has been refreshing the Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group website, https://mdwwg.com.au/. The MDWWG, led by Dr Deborah Nias (photo, right), is a non-government organisation delivering water in partnership with Aboriginal groups, landowners and government. The Board of Directors includes Kathy Ridge and David Harriss. ……………… Mud. ‘Freak mud flows threaten our water supplies, and climate change is raising the risk’ is an article in The Conversation, 30 May, on which Assoc. Prof. Ian Rutherfurd is a co-author. http://theconversation.com/freak-mud-flows-threaten-our-water-supplies-and-climate-change-is- raising-the-risk-116418 ………………

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Nine-year catchup

Margaret Ayre (left) and Clare Taylor (photo, right) met up in Darwin recently. They graduated in the first cohort of Fellows, from the Science-to- Policy Leadership Program in 2010. ………………

Nomination. Aither’s ‘WaterGuide: Setting a path to improved water management and use under scarcity’, published by the Australian Water Partnership, is one of four nominees in the Water Industry Alliance (based in ) Smart Water Awards for ‘Innovation in SMEs’. WaterGuide was devised and then refined through extensive consultation with potential users, by Huw Pohlner and Will Fargher, and launched at the World Water Forum in Brazil in March 2018. See https://www.waterindustry.com.au/smartwaterawards for all the awards and nominees. ……………… Dr Debbie Bower is lead author on an article in The Conversation on 4 June: ‘A deadly fungus threatens to wipe out 100 frog species – here’s how it can be stopped’, https://theconversation.com/a-deadly- fungus-threatens-to-wipe-out-100-frog-species-heres-how-it-can-be- stopped-117842. Debbie’s work with international collaborators has prepared a call for action to protect the frogs of New Guinea, based on dedicated funding, a contingency plan, a taskforce, and facilities for captive breeding and gene banking. Frogs are crucial to environmental health and balance, being recyclers, prey and Debbie Bower (left) with predators. The academic paper behind this article is detailed Suzy Nethercott-Watson on 9 May. below.

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RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS BY FELLOWS AND FRIENDS Bower D.S., Lips K.R., Amepou Y. et al. 2019. Island of opportunity: can New Guinea protect amphibians from a globally emerging pathogen? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/fee.2057

Brose U., Archambault P., Barnes A.D., …, Thompson R.M. et al. 2019. Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 919–927. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0899-x

Kopf R.K., Boutier M., Finlayson C.M., Hodges K., Humphries P., King A., Kingsford R.T., Marshall J., McGinness H.M., Thresher R., Vanderplasschen A. 2019. Biocontrol in Australia: Can a carp herpesvirus (CyHV-3) deliver safe and effective ecological restoration? Biological Invasions, March 2019, https://researchers.cdu.edu.au/en/publications/biocontrol-in-australia-can-a-carp-herpesvirus-cyhv-3- deliver-saf

McGinness H.M., Paton A., Gawne B., King A.J., Keller Kopf R., Mac Nally R., McInerney P.J. 2019. Effects of fish kills on fish consumers and other water-dependent fauna: exploring the potential effect of mass mortality of carp in Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19035 …………………………………

NEWS OF SPONSORS – current & former Several current sponsors of Peter Cullen Trust Fellows won awards at the prestigious Australian Water Association National Awards at Ozwater’19 Gala Dinner on Wednesday 8 May. Congratulations! South East Water (in Victoria) won the Research Innovation Award for their project ‘Driving Change from Conservatism to Pragmatism – Better use of Biosolids and Recycled Water by Using Research to Challenge Guidelines.’ Using rigorous research, the project team delivered regulatory changes that significantly streamlined storage requirements for both biosolids and recycled water. The changes are now driving major efficiency gains for the industry both in Australia and beyond. Melbourne Water won the Program Innovation Award for the ‘Enhancing Our Dandenong Creek’ project, working with the community and other agencies to achieve exemplary and measurable on- ground benefits, through the reintroduction of two nationally threatened fish species, and world- leading waterway renewal works.

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Western Australian Water Corporation won the Infrastructure Project Innovation Award for ‘Groundwater Replenishment Scheme’, the first water project of its kind in Australia. The Groundwater Replenishment Scheme has made a significant contribution to the country’s long- term security of water supplies, by creating a new climate-independent water source and increasing the capacity to safely and efficiently recycle water. ……………… North East Water (in Victoria) announced in May: ‘North East Water has committed to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and is embracing a once in a generation opportunity to be regional leaders in substantially contributing to addressing global challenges’. For 2019–20 they are prioritising SDGs 5, 6, 9, 11, 12 and 13. See https://newater.com.au/about-us/corporate- documents/sustainable-development-goals ………………………………………………… Articles ‘Greening the West’ By Simon Wilkinson City West Water, Strategic Projects Manager ([email protected]) ‘Greening the West’ is a project that I have been working on for a number of years.

A couple of weeks ago there were some really exciting presentations at OzWater’19. Of particular interest to me were the reflections made on the role of urban greening and collaboration across sectors to get better health and liveability outcomes for our communities. On the back of this I thought I would share some progress City West Water has made – and is making – in this space through ‘Greening the West’. What is Greening the West? Greening the West was developed by City West Water (CWW). It is a regional collaboration of 23 stakeholder partners, spanning not-for-profit organisations and local and state government agencies. Greening the West was founded in 2010 and has the aim of delivering positive health and social outcomes and enhanced liveability for communities in Melbourne’s West. The infographic (below) explains.

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Greening the West (GTW) obtained initial impetus from the efforts and resourcing of CWW who engaged with their councils and other public sector entities to develop a forum (GTW steering committee) for discussion of the need for increased urban greening with water as the enabling resource for the success of all greening projects. This meeting occurs four times a year with those attending all able to influence the agenda.

An early task emerging from forum meetings was the development of a Greening the West Strategic Plan. This was developed by the GTW steering committee and was launched in 2013. CWW played a lead role in managing the Strategic Plan process for the GTW steering committee.

Highlights of what has been done In the six years since its inception, Greening the West as a regional collaborative has leveraged just over $21 million dollars in funding from federal, state and local government as well as private entities for key regional greening projects across the West of Melbourne.

A few key projects include the naturalisation of Upper Stony Creek, Ryans Creek Melton channel realignment, One Million Trees, and Greening The Pipeline. GTW has been referred to in ‘Plan Melbourne’ as a demonstration for other regions in Melbourne to consider, and has received considerable industry recognition winning the following awards: • Vic Health award in 2014 • Stormwater Victoria award in 2016 • Australian Institute of Landscape Architects award in 2016 • Australian Water Association award in 2016.

What are we doing now? More recently, CWW has reaffirmed its commitment to further contribute to the GTW initiative through the development of its Stormwater Harvesting Partnership Fund which currently has seven projects committed to construction across five different municipalities (up to $12.5 million over 5 years). We are also leading the refresh of the 2013 GTW Strategic Plan (kicking off now) with all our stakeholders, to define the goals and targets of the initiative for the next 5 years. By CWW leading and participating in GTW, we add value for our stakeholders by: . Adopting a big picture, regional focus with the ability to identify opportunities and elevate important issues; . Investigating funding opportunities, contributing to project proposals and reviewing and endorsing grant submissions. Our key activities are centred on: . Facilitating the GTW Steering Committee as well as connecting stakeholders for potential projects and partnerships that may deliver outcomes greater than individual entities could achieve. . Furthering the goals and targets outlined in the GTW Strategic Plan. We see ourselves as custodians of the plan and we are driven by its key goals and targets and the desire to ensure it is more than just a document and is brought to life through action. . Advocating for investment in urban greening in Melbourne’s west. . Promoting the benefits of urban greening through communications and marketing channels including our website. If you want any more information on the initiative, I am more than happy to have a chat. …………………………………

What’s your story? By Bruce Campbell

Canberra. May 9. Fellows gather to celebrate a new cohort, renew networks over breakfast – and learn more about the power of storytelling!

19 Fellows, joined by Business Storytelling facilitator to Fortune 500 and ASX top 100 companies Yamini Naidu. In addition to being an accomplished author and presenter on business storytelling,

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Yamini is a regular on the Melbourne stand-up comedy circuit, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018. Wow, this is going to be a fun day… . Influence. Now where have we all heard that before? Yamini’s take: “Getting people who turn up to turn on!”

Fellows listen intently to a story, led by Yamini Naidu (seated at the group’s focal point).

Aristotle and the Curse of Knowledge Did you know? Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle identified three central tenets of storytelling rhetoric: Logos – sound logic; Ethos – personal credibility; Pathos – emotional connection.

Logos. Think of a journal article. In the environmental water sphere, we typically commission research institutions to monitor and report on outcomes. These publications are laced with Logos. Have you ever had to review one prior to publication?

It won’t surprise you to hear that Logos, “literal” storytelling, is the most common form.

The most influential form of storytelling? Ethos, followed narrowly by Pathos – both “lateral” storytelling. Personal credibility just trumps emotional connection, but they both trump stories restricted to Logos: information – with context often left for the audience to fill in or interpret themselves. Of course, as Yamini reminded us, Logos in business storytelling should be incorporated in the form of truth. But to be authentic, stories need not be “the truth, and nothing but the truth!”

Influential stories are based around personal credibility – experience. They can reveal a few mistakes – humility, Breakout session – smiles all round as Ethos takes hold! lessons learnt – to avoid sounding self- righteous. So, those reports and papers again. Are they influential? Beyond immediate peers? Why then do reward structures – the number of articles published in leading journals; reports prepared to meet contractual milestones – require fascinating (or at least useful) discoveries to be restricted to an audience of peers? “Hang on, that’s a bit rough!” you may be thinking. But how many are read by broader audiences, with different interests – who also have a stake?

“Share a time you pursued a dream”

For practice, Yamini challenged us to write an Ethos-based story, and even better with a sprinkling of Pathos! She provided a number of Framing Questions to help, and showed us examples of what is, and isn’t a story. Here is something of an amateur attempt …

The Logos Version - My partner and I are planning to transition, over the next decade, to operating the previous generation’s farm in our ‘retirement’, and are investing in diverse and innovative forms of agriculture in order to supplement grazing income. We are hopeful that our NRM knowledge can help boost productivity while also improving soil health. Now to the story – ‘Full Circle’: This is now. Yet it is the future. A life free of the grind of a bureaucracy, of feeling like a cog in a big wheel.

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The best time I have is spent with my family on a farm that Lucy and I are working towards being our own. Planting trees – an investment in the future, a risk that markets can be developed. My hands are cut and calloused – a measure of achievement. My back is sore, but stronger. I can’t wait to do more of this. And yet, this is also about the past. A career dedicated to NRM – but remote, disconnected. My next step is to lead by example – transforming land that I have a deep personal connection to. Rarely are dreams recalled in a waking moment. But this one will be, and is.

Thank you Yamini, for a fresh take on a 2300 year old concept that helped to expand my understanding, in a fun setting. Thank you to the other PCT Fellows who attended on the day, without whom it would not have been nearly as much fun. Biggest thanks of all to Lisa Ehrenfried, Elissa McNamara and Kate MacMaster for organising the day, and to the Peter Cullen Trust for funding a terrific workshop. …………………………………

An unexpected and rewarding journey By Dr Andrew O’Neill

Last month I had the great privilege to complete my first expedition length adventure race, where our team, the Goats, trekked, kayaked and mountain-biked for 100 hours and 500 km from Girraween National Park to the Gold Coast, taking in breathtaking mountains in the Gondwana World Heritage Area and the rivers of Northern NSW. To understand how I even got to the start line of such a race, doing massive amounts of training for a year, and sacrificing time with family, I need to take you back 18 months. It was a pretty normal Monday, and I had just finished chairing one of the last of many tele-conferences that our 2017 Science to Policy (S2P) cohort (big shout out to the 2017 Fellows) had convened, to develop our final project. I rode my bike out of the carpark and homeward. Within a couple of minutes, I was lying on the pavement of Turbot Street in Brisbane’s CBD after being hit by a Vespa. “A Vespa?” I hear you ask. To be honest I didn’t think it could be too serious either, until a few hours later when the doctors later advised me that my tibia was shattered at the plateau (right in the knee) and it would be a long road to recovery, and that I would possibly never walk properly, let alone run or cycle competitively. A few weeks into my hospital stay a close friend dropped by for a chat. During a lull in conversation he looked straight at me, “This is going to sound crazy, but I think you should join our adventure racing team for an event we’re entering next year”. I looked back at him and then looked down at my leg. I remember thinking about my experiences from the S2P where our cohort was affectionately dubbed the “Riskies” (probably… ok definitely… the most risk-averse cohort to go through the program). I suppose I was keen to step outside of what would be expected and take a risk. Don’t get me wrong, I was intimidated by the amount of physical and mental preparation required to race for almost 100 straight hours, but I was curious about the limits of my abilities and being well and truly outside the comfort zone. I can assure Friends and Fellows that I was as far from my comfort zone as I’ve ever been and it’s without doubt the most stretched I’ve ever felt both physically and mentally. I made some new friends during this experience, and while most of them existed others were our imaginary ‘sleep monster’ friends brought on through sleep deprivation (we slept about 3 hours during the race). The good news was that the Goats were among the fewer than half the teams that completed the full course and we proudly crossed the line with 30 minutes to spare.

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I’ve no doubt that the skills and strategies that I learned during the S2P program were of great benefit including: • breaking down insurmountable challenges into manageable parts; • being organised; • keeping to time; • trusting your team and knowing they trust in you. Another lesson from my dear friends from the Strategic Six group: • “Andrew – believe in yourself. We’d follow you anywhere but just be sure you know where you’re going next time.” My insight from this period in my life is that despite what I initially expected it’s been amazing. You certainly wouldn’t choose the trigger for my course over these 18 months but I’d never swap the journey for anything. It’s been painful, scary, and uncertain, but a tough question and belief from a good friend, lots of support, and having good lessons from the PCT fresh in my mind, have made this journey an irreplaceable part of my story. …………………………………

Climate risks plague Murray–Darling Basin reforms By Jason Alexandra

Australia’s Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) is back on Australia’s political agenda due to millions of dead fish and a sweltering summer the Climate Council anointed as the ‘angriest’ yet. With the return of drought conditions and the fish kills in the Darling, climate change responses are being intensively scrutinised.

The interpretation and use of ecological and climate sciences remains critically important to many divisive debates. However, Australia’s intensely political water reforms are plagued by questions about accountability, integrity and interference in scientific independence. Restoring trust in the governance of these rivers is critical after several corrosive scandals. A slew of inquiries, including the South Australian Royal Commission, are providing impetus for the redesign of institutional arrangements. An Australian Academy of Science report into the fish kills explains the proximate cause – a blue- green algal bloom – and the ultimate causes – insufficient flows in the rivers – vulnerable to over extraction.

The SA Royal Commission forensically examined legal, scientific and policy dimension of the MDB reforms. In his report, Commissioner Walker argues that the Murray–Darling Basin Authority, the authority responsible for administering the plan, acted unlawfully, specifically by failing to use the best available science for determining the sustainable diversion limit and for assessing climate risks, as mandated under the Water Act. The claims that science was not adequately taken into account in preparing the Plan have been flatly denied by the MDBA. However, following the release of these two reports the MDBA announced further research into climate impacts. While further R&D is welcome, after over 30 years of consistent science-based warnings, it is critical that adaptation frameworks are developed that prepare for drier futures.

Emphatic scientific warnings – hotter, drier, less run off

Lingering doubts and deep disquiet about the way climate science and systematic risk assessments were ignored in the Basin Plan motivated me to provide evidence to the Royal Commission. My testimony focused on the scientific assessments of climate risks that I oversaw while an executive at the MDBA between 2008 and 2013.

During preparation of the Plan, the CSIRO repeatedly warned the MDBA that it is prudent to plan for hotter and drier futures. However, future water availability estimates in the Basin Plan rely on averages of data from 1895–2009, with no specific allowance for climate change impacts.

Research backing CSIRO’s warnings came from the South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative (SEACI) – a major R&D program terminated in 2012. SEACI’s findings – including the strong likelihood of longer droughts, punctuated by episodic floods – are summarised in synthesis reports intended for policy audiences. CSIRO’s Sustainable Yields Project also warned of a pronounced drying trend due to climate change (Figure 1).

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Figure 1: Decline in average annual flows at 2030 under a median future climate (left) and 20th century average flows (RHS) (CSIRO’s Sustainable Yields Project 2008).

Consensus of models and multiple lines of evidence SEACI determined that a strong consensus of climate models project rainfall and runoff reductions, with some comparable to the Millennium drought (1996–2010) that reduced stream-flow in the MDB by 44% (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Consensus of 15 models predicting drier futures (South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative).

Changing global circulation patterns causes future climates characterised by below average cool season rainfall. SEACI found multiple lines of evidence that the expanding tropics are exerting drying influences on South-eastern Australia. The Hadley cell circulation is “expanding at the rate of 0.5° of latitude (approximately 50 km) per decade” contributing to the pole-ward contraction of mid-latitude storm tracks that historically brought cool season rains.

Reductions in average rainfall are amplified up to four times in reduced stream-flow due to changes in the amount, seasonality and timing of rainfall events. For example, autumn decline results in drier catchments before critical winter–spring runoff periods, making water supplies less reliable.

Drying in the headwaters of the rivers Drying trends are likely to be acute in the southern Basin, including in the headwaters generating the majority of runoff. In terms of water resources, not all areas of the Basin are equal. Less than 12% of the MDB generates about two-thirds of stream-flow (Figure 4). Runoff generation is extremely sensitive to reduced precipitation (P) and/or increased evapotranspiration (ET). Water yield from these catchments could change dramatically due to

increases in vegetation’s water-use, under higher temperatures and CO2 fertilisation, compounding predicted reductions in precipitation.

Evapotranspiration is the most significant proportion of the water balance. Donohue estimates that 94% of all MDB precipitation (P) returns to the atmosphere via evapotranspiration (ET). Only 6% forms the streams, wetlands and recharge, with about 2% flowing out the Murray mouth before irrigation development. A simple estimate reveals that a 1% increase in ET could result in 18% reduction in stream flows (Figure 3).

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Figure 3: Runoff generation – note the significance of the mountainous South East that may be severely impacted by climate change (Donohue et al. 2011).

Handling climate risk in the Basin planning Assessment and mitigation of climate risk was mandated in the Water Act. However, the Basin Plan merely restates this legislative requirement, outlining future aspirations for generation of improved knowledge. Detailed, systematic and comprehensive risk assessments undertaken between 2008 and 2012 identified significant risks to water quantity and quality, but these were not used.

The Plan defined water resources available as unchanged from historic averages with the MDBA stating that, “Until there was greater certainty MDBA considered that the historical climate record remains the most useful climate benchmark for planning purposes” (MDBA 2012c: p. 123). Reliance on historic records was justified on spurious arguments that “forecasts of possible climate change impacts fall within this observed range of natural variability” experienced over the 114 years of the instrumental record (MDBA 2012b)1.

Adaptation planning

Climate science has consistently alerted Australia to the significant risk of reduced water availability and more frequent, severe and persistent droughts. The new climate regime challenges conventional approaches used for water planning that rely on projecting historic information. It raises fundamental doubts about reliance on the instrumental record drawing attention to the need for dynamic policies and planning approaches suited to non-stationarity. The legal requirement to use best available science requires governments to have professional capabilities for science policy–integration, yet the complex interplays between science and policy are testing institutional capacity for adaptation planning. To overcome this the SA Royal Commission recommended the Commonwealth urgently establish an independent Climate Research and Adaptation Authority.

Further, ‘science’ alone cannot provide definitive answers to complex policy problems because all science occurs in a political context that determines what gets funded and legitimised in policy processes.

The politics of uncertainty

A number of plausible reasons for why the Basin Plan did not reduce water availability based on the climate science include: (i) the uncertainty inherent in all climate projections, compared with historical ‘facts’ of hydrological and climate records. Instrumental measurements provide greater ‘certainty’ than predicted climate futures; (ii) the historical traditions of water resource agencies and hydrologists; (iii) the risks that the MDB reforms would become embroiled in politically hostile and unconstructive climate debates; and (iv) the politics of uncertainty itself, with the manufacturers of doubt emphasising uncertainty, to delay action.

The manufacturing of doubt – emphasising uncertainty Australia’s first climate change projections over 30 years ago warned of drying and more severe droughts in southern Australia. These have been repeated regularly since. Observations by BOM have confirmed their accuracy. We are living the predicted future.

In the 1980s Australia had the highest public awareness of climate change of any country. In the three decades since, Australian climate adaptation policy has been paralysed by deeply unconstructive policy conflicts and stop–start funding.

1 MDBA (2012a) is: The Proposed Basin Plan. Murray–Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.

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Initial clarity of policy directions became mired in controversies. Climate deniers and merchants (or mercenaries) of doubt corroded consensus. Legitimising debates about uncertainty undermined the need for action, as documented in Maria Taylor’s excellent book – Global Warming and Climate Change: what Australia knew and buried. Decades of lost opportunities for adaptation have hindered just transitions for the most vulnerable and affected regions, like those dependent on irrigation. In his book about confronting the new climate regime, Bruno Latour asks us to imagine us telling our grandchildren victory stories about how we successfully mobilised everything to win the war against climate change. How different would that feel?

Jason is the managing director of Alexandra and Associates, a small sustainability-focused consulting company and an independent researcher at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His work and interests are wide-ranging, spanning natural resources management, public policy and governance.

Acknowledgement: Andrew Campbell recommended Bridging republish this article of 23 April 2019 (http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2019/04/23/climate-risks-plague-murray-darling-basin-reforms/) from Global Water Forum. Andrew said: ‘In the spirit of facilitating debate, this article (with permissions, etc.) could also be good for Bridging. Its central point is sound – the best available climate projections were not used in setting SDLs in the Basin Plan, for the combination of (understandable) reasons set out here.’ This article first appeared on the Global Water Forum (www.globalwaterforum.org) and is republished with their permission.

Books and reports cited BOM (2018) State of the Climate 2018. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne. http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/ Donohue R.J., Roderick M.L. & McVicar T.R. (2011) Assessing the differences in sensitivities of runoff to changes in climatic conditions across a large basin. Journal of Hydrology 406(3–4), 234–244. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.07.003 Latour B. (2017) Facing Gaia. Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime. Polity Press. http://www.bruno- latour.fr/node/693 MDBA (2012b) Hydrologic modelling to inform the proposed Basin Plan – methods and results. MDBA publication no. 17/12. Murray–Darling Basin Authority, Canberra. MDBA (2012c) Proposed Basin Plan Consultation Report. MDBA publication no. 59/12. Murray–Darling Basin Authority, Canberra. SEACI / CSIRO (2010) Climate variability and change in south-eastern Australia: A synthesis of findings from Phase 1 of the South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative (SEACI). http://www.seaci.org/publications/documents/SEACI-1%20Reports/Phase1_SynthesisReport.pdf Taylor, M. (2014) Global warming and climate change: what Australia knew and buried … then framed a new reality for the public. ANU Press. https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p303951/pdf/book.pdf

Jason has also recently published: Alexandra J. (2019) Losing the authority – what institutional architecture for cooperative governance in the Murray-Darling Basin? Australasian Journal of Water Resources, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13241583.2019.1586066

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED LITERATURE (2009–2019) ON THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN, AUSTRALIA Prepared by: Jason Alexandra, Daniel Connell, Matt Colloff, James Horne, Jamie Pittock, Quentin Grafton, Richard Kingsford, Sarah Wheeler & John Williams May 2019

The complete bibliography with abstracts is at http://www.petercullentrust.org.au/other-publications/ 2019 Alexandra J. 2019. Losing the authority – what institutional architecture for cooperative governance in the Murray Darling Basin? Australasian Journal of Water Resources online: 12 Mar 2019) DOI: 10.1080/13241583.2019.1586066. https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2019.1586066 de Bonviller S., Zuo A., Wheeler S. 2019. Is there evidence of insider trading in Australian water markets? Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 63(2): 307–327. Grafton R.Q. 2019. Policy Review of Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: The “Do’s” and “Do Nots”. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 63(1): 116–141.

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Grafton R.Q., Garrick D., Manero A., Do T.N. 2019 The Water Governance Reform Framework: Overview and Applications to Australia, Mexico, Tanzania, U.S.A and Vietnam. Water 2019, 11: 137. doi:10.3390/w11010137. Haensch J., Wheeler S., Zuo A. 2019. Do neighbors influence irrigators’ permanent water selling decisions in Australia? Journal of Hydrology 572: 732–744. Horne J., Grafton R.Q. 2019. The Australian Water Markets Story: Transformation Incrementally. In: (Eds) J. Luetjens, M. Mintrom, P. ‘t Hart. Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand. ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 38–60. Pittock J. 2019. Are we there yet? The Murray-Darling Basin and sustainable water management. Thesis Eleven 150(1): 119–130. Pay per view with link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0725513618821970 Wheeler S.A., Marning A. 2019. Turning water into wine: exploring water security perceptions and adaptation behaviour amongst conventional, organic and biodynamic grape growers. Land Use Policy 82: 528–537. Williams J., Grafton R.Q. 2019. Missing in Action: Possible effects of water recovery on stream and river flows in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2019.1579965

2018 Alexandra J. 2018. Evolving governance and contested water reforms in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin. Water 2018 10(2): 113. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10020113 Bino G., Wassens S., Kingsford R.T., Thomas R.F., Spencer J. 2018. Floodplain ecosystem dynamics under extreme dry and wet phases in semi-arid Australia. Freshwater Biology 63(2): 224–241. doi:10.1111/fwb.13056 Chu H.L., Grafton R.Q., Stewardson M. 2018. Resilience, decision-making and environmental water releases. Earth’s Future 6(6): 777–792. Colloff M.J., Overton I.C., Henderson B., Roberts J., Reid J.R.W., Oliver R.L., Arthur A.D., Doody T.M., Sims N.C., Ye Q., Cuddy S.M. 2018. The use of historical environmental monitoring data to test predictions on cross-scale ecological responses to alterations in river flows. Aquatic Ecology 52: 133–153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-018-9650-y Grafton R.Q., Williams J., Perry C.J., Molle F., Ringler C., Steduto P., Udall B., Wheeler S.A., Wang Y., Garrick D., Allen R. 2018. The paradox of irrigation efficiency. Science 361 (issue 6404): 748–750. Grafton R., Wheeler S. 2018. Economics of Water Recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Annual Review of Resource Economics 10(1): 487–510. Loch A., Wheeler S., Settre C. 2018. Private transaction costs of water trade in the Murray-Darling Basin. Ecological Economics 146: 560–573. Thompson R.M., King A.J., Kingsford R.T., Mac Nally R., Poff N.L.R. 2018. Legacies, lags and long-term trends: Effective flow restoration in a changed and changing world. In Freshwater Biology 63: 986–995. doi:10.1111/fwb.13029 Wheeler S., Haensch J., Edwards J., Schirmer J., Zuo A. 2018. Quantifying an integral ecology framework: a case study of the Riverina, Australia. American Geophysical Union 6(2): 192–212. Wheeler S., Zuo A., Loch A. 2018. Water torture: unravelling the psychological distress of irrigators in Australia. Journal of Rural Studies 62: 183–194.

2017 Alexandra J. 2017. Risks, uncertainty and climate confusion in the MDB reforms. Water Economics and Policy 3(3) (2017) 1650038 DOI: 10.1142/S2382624X16500387 Capon S.J., Capon T.R. 2017. An impossible prescription: why science cannot determine environmental water requirements for a healthy Murray-Darling Basin. Water Economics and Policy 3(3): 1650037. Pay per view with link: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2382624X16500375 Connell D. 2017. Arguing the case to include a wider range of stakeholders in the Murray-Darling policy process. Water Economics and Policy 3: 1650040 (2017) [20 pages] https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X16500405 Horne J. 2017. The politics of water reform and environmental sustainability in the Murray–Darling Basin. Water International 42(8): 1000–1021. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2017.1412201 Nauges C., Wheeler S. 2017. The complex relationship between households’ climate change concerns and their water and energy mitigation behaviour. Ecological Economics 141: 87–94. Settre C., Connor J., Wheeler S.A. 2017. Reviewing the treatment of uncertainty in hydro-economic modeling of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Water Economics and Policy 3(3): 1650042. Settre C., Wheeler S. 2017. A century of intervention in a Ramsar wetland – the case of the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 24(2): 163–183. Wheeler S., Hatton MacDonald D., Boxall P. 2017. Water policy debate in Australia: understanding the tenets of stakeholders’ social trust. Land Use Policy 63: 246–254. Wheeler S., Loch A., Crase L., Young M., Grafton R. 2017. Developing a water market readiness assessment framework. Journal of Hydrology 552: 807–820. Wheeler S., Zuo A. 2017. The impact of drought and on irrigator farm exit intentions in the Murray- Darling Basin. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 61(3): 404–421. Williams J. 2017. Water reform in the Murray–Darling Basin: a challenge in complexity in balancing social, economic and environmental perspectives. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 150: 68–92.

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2016 Abel N., Wise R.M., Colloff M.J., Walker B.H., Butler J.R.A., Ryan P., Norman C., Langston A., Anderies J.M., Gorddard R., Dunlop M., O’Connell D. 2016. Building a resilient pathway towards transformation when “no-one is in charge”: insights from Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. Ecology and Society 21(2): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08422-210223 Baldwin D.S., Colloff M.J., Mitrovic S., Bond N.R., Wolfenden B. 2016. Restoring dissolved organic carbon subsidies from floodplains to lowland river food webs: a role for environmental flows? Marine and Freshwater Research 67: 1387–1399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF15382 Bark R., Collof, M.J., Hatton MacDonald D., Pollino C.A., Jackson S., Crossman N.D. 2016. Integrated valuation of ecosystem services obtained from restoring water to the environment in a major regulated river basin. Ecosystem Services 22: 381–391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.08.002 Colloff M.J., Lavorel S., Wise R.M., Dunlop M., Overton I.C., Williams K.J. 2016. Adaptation services of floodplains and wetlands under transformational climate change. Ecological Applications 26: 1003–1017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0848 Douglas E., Wheeler S., Smith D., Overton I., Gray S., Doody T., Crossman N. 2016. Using mental-modelling to explore how irrigators in the Murray-Darling Basin make water-use decisions. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies 6: 1–12. Grafton R.Q. 2016. Water Reform and Planning in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Water Economics and Policy 3: 1702001. Marshall G.R., Alexandra J. 2016. Institutional path dependence and environmental water recovery in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. Water Alternatives 9(3): 679–703. Grafton R.Q., Horne J., Wheeler S. 2016. On the marketisation of water: evidence from the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Water Resources Management 30(3): 913–926. Haensch J., Wheeler S., Zuo A., Bjornlund H. 2016. The Impact of water and soil salinity on water market trading in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin. Water Economics and Policy 2(1): 1–26. Hart B.T. 2016. The Australian Murray–Darling Basin Plan: challenges in its implementation (Part 1). International Journal of Water Resources Development 32(6): 819–834. DOI:10.1080/07900627.2015.1083847 Hart B.T. 2016. The Australian Murray–Darling Basin Plan: challenges in its implementation (Part 2). International Journal of Water Resources Development 32(6): 835–852. DOI:10.1080/07900627.2015.1084494 Horne J. 2016. Water policy responses to drought in the MDB, Australia. Water Policy 18(S2): 28–51. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2016.012 McGregor H.M., Colloff M.J., Lunt I.D. 2016. Did early logging or changes in disturbance regimes promote high tree densities in river red gum forests? Australian Journal of Botany 64: 530–538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT16025 Loch A., Boxall P., Wheeler S. 2016. Using proportional modeling to evaluate irrigator preferences for market- based water reallocation. Agricultural Economics 47(4): 387–398. Nauges C., Wheeler S., Zuo A. 2016. Elicitation of irrigators' risk preferences from observed behaviour. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 60(3): 442–458. Wen L., Saintilan N., Reid J.R.W., Colloff M.J. 2016. Changes in the distribution of waterbirds following the breaking of prolonged drought reflect habitat availability in coastal and inland regions. Ecology and Evolution 6: 6672–6689. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2091

2015 Colloff M.J., Caley P., Saintilan N., Pollino C.A., Crossman N.C. 2015. Long-term ecological trends of flow- dependent ecosystems in a major river basin. Marine and Freshwater Research 66: 957–969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF14067 Doody T.M., Colloff M.J., Davies M., Koul V., Benyon R.G., Nagler P.L. 2015. Quantifying water requirements of riparian river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia – implications for environmental water allocations. Ecohydrology 8: 1471–1487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eco.1598 Kingsford R.T., Mac Nally R., King A., Walker K.F., Bino G., Thompson R., Wassens S., Humphries P. 2015. Opinion. A commentary on 'Long-Long-term ecological trends of flow-dependent ecosystems in a major regulated river basin’ by Mathew J. Colloff, Peter Caley, Neil Saintilan, Carmel A. Pollino and Neville D. Crossman. Marine and Freshwater Research 66: 970–980. doi:10.1071/MF15185 Lavorel S., Colloff M.J., McIntyre S., Doherty M., Murphy H., Metcalfe D., Dunlop M., Williams R., Wise R.M., Williams K. 2015. Ecological mechanisms underpinning climate adaptation services. Global Change Biology 21: 12–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12689 Nikolakis W., Grafton R.Q. 2015. Indigenous communities and climate change: a Recognition, Empowerment and Devolution (RED) framework in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Journal of Water and Climate Change 7(1): 169–183. Steinfeld C.M.M., Kingsford R.T., Webster E.C., Sharma A. 2015. A simulation tool for managing environmental flows in regulated rivers. Environmental Modelling and Software 73: 117–132. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.08.006 Thomas R.F., Kingsford R.T., Lu Y., Cox S.J., Sims N.C., Hunter S.J. 2015. Mapping inundation in a heterogeneous floodplain wetland, the Macquarie Marshes, using Landsat Thematic Mapper. Journal of Hydrology 524: 194– 213. Wheeler S.A., Zuo A., Loch A. 2015. Watering the farm: comparing organic and conventional irrigation water use in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Ecological Economics 112: 78–85.

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Zuo A., Nauges C., Wheeler S. 2015. Farmers' exposure to risk and their temporary water trading. European Review of Agricultural Economics 42(1): 1–24. Zuo A., Wheeler S., Adamowicz W., Boxall P., Hatton-MacDonald D. 2015. Measuring price elasticities of demand and supply of water entitlements based on stated and revealed preference data. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 98(1): 314–332. Zuo A., Wheeler S.A., Boxall P., Adamowicz W.L., Hatton-MacDonald D. 2015. Identifying water prices at which Australian farmers will exit Irrigation: results of a stated preference survey. Economic Record 91: 109–123.

2014 Acreman M.C., Arthington A.H., Colloff M.J., Couch C.A., Crossman N., Dyer F., Overton I.C., Pollino C., Stewardson M.H., Young W.J. 2014. Environmental flows for natural, hybrid and novel riverine ecosystems in a changing world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 21: 466–473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/130134 Akter S., Grafton R.Q., Merritt W.S. 2014. Integrated hydro-ecological and economic modelling of environmental flows: Macquarie Marshes, Australia. Agricultural Water Management 145: 98–109. Bino G., Steinfeld C., Kingsford R.T. 2014. Maximizing colonial waterbirds' breeding events using identified ecological thresholds and environmental flow management. Ecological Applications 24: 142–157. Bond N., Costelloe J., King A., Warfe D., Reich P., Balcombe S. 2014. Ecological risks and opportunities from engineered artificial flooding as a means of achieving environmental flow objectives. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(7): 386–394. Pay per view with link: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/130259 Colloff M.J., Ward K.A., Roberts J. 2014. Ecology and conservation of grassy wetlands dominated by spiny mud grass Pseudoraphis spinescens in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 24: 238–255. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2390 Grafton R.Q., Horne J. 2014. Water Markets in the Murray-Darling Basin. Agricultural Water Management 145: 61–71. Grafton R.Q., Pittock J., Williams J., Jiang Q., Quiggin J., Possingham H. 2014. Water planning under hydro- climatic change in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. Ambio 43(8): 1082–1092. Horne J. 2014. The 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan – issues to watch. International Journal of Water Resources Development 30(1): 152–163, DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2013.787833 Loch A., Wheeler S., Boxall P., Hatton-Macdonald D., Adamowicz W.L., Bjornlund H. 2014. Irrigator preferences for water recovery budget expenditure in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Land Use Policy 36: 396–404. Ren S., Kingsford R.T. 2014. Modelling impacts of regulation on flows to the Lowbidgee floodplain of the Murrumbidgee River, Australia. Journal of Hydrology 519: 1660–1667. Vivian L., Godfree R.C., Colloff M.J., Mayence C.E., Marshall D.J. 2014. Wetland plant growth under contrasting water regimes associated with river regulation and drought: implications for environmental water management. Plant Ecology 215: 997–1011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-014-0357-4 Wheeler S. 2014. Insights, lessons and benefits from improved regional water security and integration in Australia. Water Resources and Economics 8: 57–78. Wheeler S., Loch A., Zuo A., Bjornlund H. 2014. Reviewing the adoption and impact of water markets in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Journal of Hydrology 518: 28–41. Wheeler S., Zuo A., Bjornlund H. 2014. Australian irrigators’ recognition of the need for more environmental water flows and intentions to donate water allocations. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 57(1): 104–122. Wheeler S.A., Zuo A., Bjornlund H. 2014. Investigating the delayed on-farm consequences of selling water entitlements in the Murray-Darling Basin. Agricultural Water Management 145: 72–82. Wheeler S., Zuo A., Hughes N. 2014. The impact of water ownership and water market trade strategy on Australian irrigators' farm viability. Agricultural Systems 129: 81–92. Zuo A., Brooks R., Wheeler S., Harris E., Bjornlund H. 2014. Understanding irrigator bidding behavior in Australian water markets in response to uncertainty. Water 6(11): 3457–3477.

2013 Baldwin D.S., Rees G.N., Wilson J.S. Colloff M.J., Whitworth K.L., Pitman T.L., Wallace T.A. 2013. Provisioning of bioavailable carbon between wet and dry periods in a semi-arid floodplain. Oecologia 172: 539–550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-012-2512-8 Baldwin D.S., Colloff M.J., Rees G.N., Watson G.O., Chariton A.A., Court L.N., Hartley D.M., Morgan M.J., King A., Hardy C.M. 2013. Impacts of inundation and drought on eukaryote biodiversity in semi-arid floodplain soils. Molecular Ecology 22: 1746–1758. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12190 Barton P.S., Colloff M.J., Pullen K., Cunningham S.A. 2013. Grassland area determines beetle assemblage dissimilarity from surrounding floodplain forest. Journal of Insect Conservation 17: 1209–1219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-013-9602-8 Connor J.D., Franklin B., Loch A., Kirby M., Wheeler S.A. 2013. Trading water to improve environmental flow outcomes. Water Resources Research 49(7): 4265–4276. Grafton R.Q., Pittock J., Davis R., Williams J., Fu G., Warburton M., Udall B., McKenzie R., Yu X., Che N., Connell D., Jiang Q., Kompas T., Lynch A., Norris R., Possingham H., Quiggin J. 2013. Global insights into water resources, climate change and governance. Nature Climate Change 3: 315–321. Horne J. 2013. Australian water policy in a climate change context: some reflections. International Journal of Water Resources Development 29(2): 137–151. DOI:10.1080/07900627.2013.725537

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Lane-Miller C.C., Wheeler S., Bjornlund H., Connor J. 2013. Acquiring water for the environment: lessons from natural resources management. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 15(4): 513–532. Lukasiewicz A., Finlayson C.M., Pittock J. 2013. Identifying low risk climate change adaptation in catchment management while avoiding unintended consequences. Gold Coast, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Open access with link: https://www.nccarf.edu.au/synthesis/identifying-low-risk-climate- change-adaptation-catchment-management-while-avoiding Pittock J. 2013. Lessons from adaptation to sustain freshwater environments in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 4(5): 429–438. Pay per view with link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.230 Reid J.R.W., Colloff M.J., Arthur A.D., McGinness H.M. 2013. Influence of catchment condition and water resource development on waterbird assemblages in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Biological Conservation 165: 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.05.009 Rogers K., Saintilan N., Colloff M.J., Wen L. 2013. Application of Thresholds of Potential Concern and Limits of Acceptable Change in the condition assessment of a significant wetland. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 185: 8583–8600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-013-3197-0 Wheeler S.A., Cheesman J. 2013. Key findings from a survey of sellers to the Restoring the Balance programme. Economic Papers 32(3): 340–352. Wheeler S., Garrick D., Loch A., Bjornlund H. 2013. Evaluating water market products to acquire water for the environment in Australia. Land Use Policy 30(1): 427–436. Wheeler S., Zuo A., Bjornlund H. 2013. Farmers’ climate change beliefs and adaptation strategies for a water scarce future in Australia. Global Environmental Change 23(2): 537–547.

2012 Grafton R.Q., Libecap G., Edwards E.C., O’Brien R., Landry C. 2012. A comparative assessment of water markets: insights from the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia and the Western USA. Water Policy 14: 175–193. Gross C., Pittock J., Finlayson C.M., Geddes M.C. 2012. Climate change adaptation in the Coorong, Murray Mouth and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert. Final report to the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. NCCARF Publication 06/12. Gold Coast, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Open access with link: https://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/limits-adaptation-coorong-murray-alexandrina-albert Horne J. 2012. Economic approaches to water management in Australia. International Journal of Water Resources Development, DOI:10.1080/07900627.2012.712336 Jiang Q., Grafton R.Q. 2012. Economic effects of climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Agricultural Systems 110: 10–16. Loch A., Bjornlund H., Wheeler S., Connor J. 2012. Allocation trade in Australia: a qualitative understanding of irrigator motives and behaviour. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 56(1): 42–60. Pittock J., Finlayson C.M., Howitt J.A. 2012. Beguiling and risky: Environmental works and measures for wetlands conservation under a changing climate. Hydrobiologia 708(1): 111–131. Pay per view with link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-012-1292-9 Sims N.C., Chariton A., Jin H., Colloff M.J. 2012 A classification of floodplain ecosystems in the Murray-Darling Basin based on changes in flows following water resource development. Wetlands 32: 239–248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13157-011-0231-2 Sims N.C., Colloff M.J. 2012. Remote sensing of vegetation responses to flooding of a semi-arid floodplain: Implications for monitoring ecological effects of environmental flows. Ecological Indicators 18: 387–391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.12.007 Wheeler S., Bjornlund H., Zuo A., Edwards J. 2012. Handing down the farm? The increasing uncertainty of irrigated farm succession in Australia. Journal of Rural Studies 28(3): 266–275. Wheeler S., Zuo A., Bjornlund H., Miller C. 2012. Selling the farm silver? Understanding water sales to the Australian government. Environmental and Resource Economics 52(1): 133–154. Williams J. 2012. Catchment management – setting the scene: An overview of catchment management models in Australia. Water: Journal of the Australian Water Association, April 2012, 1–5.

2011 Connell D., Grafton, R.Q., 2011. Water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin. Water Resources Research 47: WG00G03, doi: 10.1029/2010WR009820, 2011. Grafton R.Q. 2011. Economic Costs and Benefits of the Proposed Basin Plan. In: Basin Futures – water reform in the Murray Darling Basin. Eds: Daniel Connell & Quentin Grafton. ANU Press, Canberra. Grafton R.Q., Chu L., Stewardson M., Kompas T. 2011 Optimal dynamic water allocation: irrigation extractions and environmental trade-offs in the Murray River, Australia. Water Resources Research 47:12 DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009786. Grafton R.Q., Jiang Q. 2011. Economic effects of water recovery on irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 55: 487–499. Hatton-MacDonald D., Morrison M.D., Rose J.M., Boyle K.J. 2011. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 55: 374–392. Kingsford R.T., Walker K.F., Lester R.E., Young W.J., Fairweather P.G., Sammut J., Geddes M.C. 2011. A Ramsar wetland in crisis - the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 62: 255–265.

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Morrison M.D., Wheeler S.A., MacDonald D.H. 2011. Towards a more nuanced discussion of the net-benefits of sharing water in the Murray-Darling Basin. AFBM Journal 8(2): 27–38. Pittock J., Finlayson C.M. 2011. Australia's Murray-Darling Basin: freshwater ecosystem conservation options in an era of climate change. Marine and Freshwater Research 62: 232–243. Pay per view with link: http://www.publish.csiro.au/MF/MF09319 Qureshi E., Grafton R.Q., Kirby M. 2011. Understanding irrigation water use efficiency at different scales for better policy reform — a case study of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. Water Policy 12: 1–17. Ren S., Kingsford R.T. 2011. Statistically integrated flow and flood modelling (IFFM) compared to hydrologically integrated quantity and quality model (IQQM) for annual flows in the regulated Macquarie River in arid Australia. Environmental Management 48: 177–188. Steinfeld C.M.M., Kingsford R.T. 2011. Disconnecting the floodplain: Earthworks and their ecological effect on a dryland floodplain in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Rivers Research and Applications 29: 206–218. Thomas R.F., Kingsford R.T., Yi L., Hunter S.J. 2011. Landsat mapping of inundation (1979–2006) of the Macquarie Marshes in semi-arid Australia. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32: 4545–4569. Williams J. 2011. Understanding the Basin and its dynamics. In: Basin Futures – water reform in the Murray Darling Basin. Eds: Daniel Connell & Quentin Grafton. ANU Press, Canberra.

2010 Colloff M.J., Baldwin D.S. 2010. Resilience of floodplain ecosystems in a semi-arid environment. The Rangeland Journal 32: 305–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/RJ10015 Davies P. E., Harris J.H., Hillman T.J., Walker K.F. 2010. The Sustainable Rivers Audit: assessing river ecosystem health in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 61(7): 764–777. Pay per view with link: https://www.publish.csiro.au/MF/MF09043 Grafton R.Q. 2010. How to increase the cost-effectiveness of water reform and environmental flows in the Murray- Darling Basin. Agenda 17(2): 17–40. Leigh C., Sheldon F., Kingsford R.T., Arthington A. 2010. Sequential flooding: the driver of ‘booms’ in dryland rivers. Marine and Freshwater Research 61: 1–13. Pittock J., Finlayson C.M., Gardner A., McKay C. 2010. Changing character: the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Environmental and Planning Law Journal 27(6): 401–425. Pay per view with link: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/61026 Ren S., Kingsford R.T., Thomas R.F. 2010. Modelling flow to and inundation of the Macquarie Marshes in arid Australia. Environmetrics 21: 549–561. Stokes K.E., Ward K.A., Colloff M.J. 2010. Alterations in flood frequency increase exotic and native species richness of understorey vegetation in a temperate floodplain eucalypt forest. Plant Ecology 211: 219–233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-010-9833-7 Wheeler S., Bjornlund H., Zuo A., Shanahan M. 2010. The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn- Murray Irrigation District, Australia. Agricultural Water Management 97(9): 1333–1343. Wheeler S., Bjornlund H., Zuo A., Shanahan M. 2010. Erratum to "The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia" by Wheeler et al. [Agricultural Water Management 97 (2010): 1333–1343]. Agricultural Water Management 98(1): 222–225.

2009 Wheeler S., Bjornlund H., Shanahan M., Zuo A. 2009. Who trades water allocations? Evidence of the characteristics of early adopters in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia 1998–1999. Agricultural Economics 40(6): 631–643. …………………………………

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FELLOWS (year; sponsor if applicable, in order of appearance; bold black font in the text): Dr Ashmita Sengupta – 2019 CSIRO Fellow Dr Emma Carmody – 2013 RBC Blue Water Project Fellow Dr Anne Poelina – 2011 Fellow Justine Nowrojee – 2019 Trility Fellow Dr Liesbeth Weijs – 2019 Australian Rivers Institute Fellow Elissa McNamara – 2016 Southern Rural Water Fellow Susie Williams – 2011 Fellow and current Board Director of the Trust Assoc. Prof. Alison King – 2014 Fellow Dr Christobel Ferguson – 2014 RBC Blue Water Project Fellow Dr Andrew O’Neill – 2017 Jigsaw Farms Fellow Kate Guard – 2019 Tasmanian Irrigation Fellow Dr Sondoss Elsawah – 2014 Professor John Langford Fellow Chris Arnott – 2010 Fellow and current Board Director of the Trust Dr Declan Page – 2014 CSIRO Fellow Dr Stacey Hamilton – 2018 WA Water Corporation Fellow Dr Kathleen Broderick – 2014 Fellow Michael Wrathall – 2016 NSW Dept of Primary Industries – Water Fellow Bradley Moggridge – 2018 Reverend Vicky Cullen Scholarship Fellow Dr Heather McGinness – 2015 CSIRO Fellow Professor Ross Thompson – 2014 Institute for Applied Ecology Fellow Dr Cuan Petheram – 2012 CSIRO Fellow Dr Carmel Pollino – 2012 CSIRO Fellow Dr Tanya Doody – 2015 CSIRO Fellow Dr Deborah Nias – 2010 Fellow Dr Margaret Ayre – 2010 Fellow Dr Clare Taylor – 2010 Fellow Dr Deborah Bower – 2019 Suzy Nethercott Watson Scholarship Fellow Simon Wilkinson – 2017 City West Water Fellow Bruce Campbell – 2017 Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Fellow Dr Lisa Ehrenfried – 2014 Office of Living Victoria Fellow FRIENDS (in order of appearance; bold black font in the text): Darryl Day Tom Mollenkopf Brett Tucker Hon Karlene Maywald BRIDGING Professor John Thwaites Managing Editor: Tom Mollenkopf Andrew Campbell Compiler/Editor: Ann Milligan Reverend Vicky Cullen Photos: Contributors and the Trust and as labelled. Dr Gary Jones NOTE: Views and intellectual property embodied in Emeritus Professor Angela Arthington articles published in BRIDGING belong to their Suzy Nethercott-Watson originators. Even when BRIDGING publishes Dr Graham Harris material by Friends or Fellows, the views Tony McAlary expressed are not necessarily those of the Adjunct Professor Kathleen Bowmer Peter Cullen Trust. Professor Nick Schofield SOCIAL MEDIA: Professor Quentin Grafton https://www.facebook.com/petercullentrust/ Dr Siwan Lovett Kathy Ridge https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6845223 David Harriss @PeterCullenPCT Assoc. Prof. Ian Rutherfurd OFFICE: Peter Cullen Water & Environment Trust, Will Fargher Building 15, University of Canberra, ACT 2601. Dr Paul Humphries T: 02 6206 8606 Dr Daniel Connell E: [email protected] Dr Jamie Pittock Adjunct Professor John Williams W: http://petercullentrust.com.au/

SPONSORS mentioned (current and former): Australian Rivers Institute Institute for Applied Ecology Cotton Australia South East Water

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