Barry Stone

Employment Agent,

lives on Lake Menindee.  

Behind him, 15 kilometres of

dry lake-bed to the other side. 

"We out here are looking at

total destruction of

the outback of New South Wales, total destruction. 

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And, I'd like to say

to the city fellas, we are

not bullshitting you here. 

We are living it !"

Kelly Norris

 Cafe Manager &

Youth Wrangler - Wilcannia 

"Let's fix this together, Australia. 

Its our country, our people.

Let's look after them."

Outback Mick & Nugget Caretakers - Menindee Caravan Park

"They're killing our river.

They're not only taking our water....

they're poisoning and

polluting it too."

Sarah Moles

Author - Warwick Qld.

"I'm watching this space with bated breath, because I know there is more to come, and I can't wait, for a very bright light, and a very, very forensic examination to be made of what exactally has gone on."

Cathryn Milne

Student and Environmentalist

Mildura

"We need a royal commission NOW and a grass roots human movement."

Tony Smith

Darling River Man - Wentworth

"Jail time, to make people realise you can't mess with nature. 

A royal commission is the only way

to get to the bottom of it."

Kevin Davey

Remembers the healthy

Darling of the old days

"We're in trouble, we've got to wake up to ourselves"

"We used to get yabbies

as big as beer bottles."

Dr. Beryl Carmichael

Indigenous Elder - Menindee

"It's a rights violation

of all life forms"

Darriea Turley

Mayor of Broken Hill

"What we need to do is stay focused on the health of the Darling River."

Graham Clark

Barkindji Elder,

Lower Darling

"Whatever happened -

to the river ?

Whatever happened

to our land ?"

Rachael Strachan

Farmer - Tulney Pt. Station, Lower Darling

"They are killing

the womb of the basin."

Dr. Michelle Maloney

Australian Earth Laws Alliance

"Rights Of Nature and Earth Laws wants to shift the current dominant legal system so that it actually respects life".

Sharon Corkery

Manager - Tilpa Pub

"There's a lot of anger..there's just pure disgust and a lot of sadness - because it's their livelihoods."

Trevor Mallon

Ex-Miner - Menindee

"I even give my dog rain water.  That's how bad the river is."  

Bradley Hardy

Ngemba Educator, Brewarrina

"The river is our community.  Without the river we have no community.  We need to come together to fix these things."

Kate McBride 

Wool-Grower & Student

Tolarno Station - Lower Darling

"I've watched in my lifetime,

an entire town being destroyed .."

- Menindee did have a population of over 1000, and up to 500 seasonal workers,

Up to 300 tourists per day 

signed the visitors book.

Today the population is just over 300. -

Ross Files

Born in Menindee -1939

"When you destroy a river, you destroy

all the people on it."

Robert McBride 

Wool Grower - Farmer 

Darling River Guardian

"The Prime Minister must run a Federal Royal Commission, if he doesn't then the Darling River system will collapse and die, as will The Murray."

Jacqui Pasquale

Educator - Wentworth

"We don't want to live on a river that's got no water in it."

Cherry & Don Cullinan

Wentworth, in western NSW

where the Darling and

Murray Rivers should meet.

Photo - Boat, by a dry 

Lake Menindee, 

15 kilometres to the other side. 

Where is the water now ??? 

"If we could stop the greed with

these big Cubby Stations,

that's where the problem lies.

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A Federal Royal Commission would be a lot better off - same as the banks, 

if they got into it, delved into it 

properly they would find

heaps of problems."

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Rights of Nature Legislature and legal protection over

life supporting ecosystems 

are needed if we are to realise a future on

our fragile Earth. 

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The fish-kills at Menindee were not

about the drought,

they were and are about

the legal yet immoral 

over allocated extraction

of water by irrigators;

farm chemical runoff and chronic water and land pollution. 

The proof

is in Menindee weir

and Lake Wetherill 

right now. 

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All governments seem to be deliberately ignoring the most probable cause of the problem -  the fertilisers and other farm chemical runoff that is coming from massive irrigation operations in the upper Darling catchment. 

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The same scenario,

blue-green algae outbreaks

and fish-kills,   

are starting to be seen

along the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers too, where flood irrigated agriculture 

operations

have been starting up

in recent years. 

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The three interviews below

are related to the first

fish-kill of around ten thousand

fish on December 19th 2018. 

The people in them

had no idea that in just three weeks there would be

millions of rotting fish floating

in the centre of their town, Menindee.

Link to 

A letter for The Prime Minister of Australia

This fishkill was a local, regional, national, international

and global disaster. 

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What kind of supreme bastardry has been dished out

over the past 20 years,

to the ecosystems and

people along the Darling,

Menindee & Broken Hill ? 

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Is this about

firstly killing off

and then mining out 

The Menindee Lakes ? 

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How did this happen ?

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Only the M.D.B.A. and a Federal Royal Commission will ever find out what has really been going on with "The Money" & "The Water" 

over the past 20 years. 

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Please read all five pages

on this site,

then explore it

to find out more,

starting at the interviews

with people who live where there once was a river.

And please share this with

anyone who may care.

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