Hurry Save The Murray!

A big day at the Embassy today: politicians, police, media and lots of local traffic.

When the workers arrived this morning, they found two women holding a banner “Stop Killing our River” at the end of the dam/regulator.

The police arrived and arrested the two . See YouTube. The women were charged with trespass. Visit www.stoptheweir.com for details.

Ngori, the Ambassador, called in to see the action.

In interviews screened on Channel 10 and 7, the women explained that a citizen had a responsibility to protest injustice and that her protest was not about emotions but knowledge.

What is that knowledge? Local, scientific, historical and ethnographic. What protest? Selective use of data, sham consultation, lack of integrated plan? Call into the Embassy with your questions, browse our literature, share your stories.

Opposition to the dam is mounting. A environmentally aware visiting politician was shocked by the scale of the construction and that there had been no EIS.

The folly of continuing work on the dam/regulators on the Currency Creek and Finniss River was apparent to a visiting SA Water employee.

The author of Barney Boo, a book about a young Koala from a fictional, drought-ridden part of Australia who takes the reader along on his quest for a new home and future, visited and immediately understood the tragedy.

And the water is rushing through to Lake Alexandrina.