Hurry Save The Murray!

“RALLY on the RIVERFRONT” was the call of the CCR (Coalition of Concerned Murray Communities) and people came from miles around, from upriver and downstream. The Fresh Water Embassy was on the road early with banners and the photographic exhibit of “Our Living Murray”, the bus from Milang brought members of the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group, while the Meningie mob overcame vehicle hassles to join the crowd of some 200 who listened to the speeches delivered on the back of a ute parked on the river reserve.

A people’s movement is building.  The failings of the ‘historic’ River Murray handover deal have now been demonstrated, and the deal needs to be scrapped and State and Federal Governments forced back to the drawing board to fix the system once and for all.

The Coalition of Concerned Murray Communities was formed on Grieger’s sandbar on 19 August 2009 and attended by hundreds of River Murray community members. The Coalition has been reaching out to the communities of the Riverland to join them campaigning for treatment of the River Murray as one living system.