Hurry Save The Murray!

Rally to demand action: Steps of Parliament House: Saturday, 10th October 2009, 12 Noon

Community groups from all around the State plus peak conservation, environmental and social justice organisations and politicians today called for Change and a Fair Go.

People came on foot, with banners, whistles and chants.

Diane Bell, Lower Lakes campaigner, had the task of keeping the proceedings on time and somehow managed to limit politicians to one minute each! There was street theatre, spirited chanting, clever banners and a sure sense that “We the People” are standing together.

Auntie Cherie Watkins, via the wonders of modern technology, welcomed us to Kaurna lands.

Addressing issues of Community Water Issues and Consequences we heard about Storm and Waste Water from

• Cheltenham Stormwater Recovery and Public Open Space - Cheltenham Park Residents’ Association, Trevor White

  

  

• Adelaide Stormwater Recovery - Brownhill Creek Association Incorporated, Marcus Richard Beresford

  

• Save Adelaide Coastal Waters – Friends of Gulf St Vincent, Pat Harbison

  

Gulfs and Underground Water from

• Save Our Gulf Coalition - The Problems with Desalination, Corrie Vanderhoek

  

• Cuttlefish Coast Coalition - Cuttlefish, Precious Asset, Greg Curnow

  

• Upper Spencer Gulf - Save Point Lowly, Andrew Melville-Smith

  

• Underground Water Underhand Use – Friends of the Earth, Peter Burdon

  

Peak Bodies

• Australian Conservation Foundation, David Noonan

  

• Social Justice and a Fair Go for All (SA Unions), Janet Giles

  

• Conservation Council of SA Water Policy (CCSA), Julie Pettett

  

River Murray, Lower Lakes and Coorong

• The Death of Coorong Dreaming - Ngarrindjeri Elder, Tom Trevorrow

  

• Lower Lakes and Coorong – A Vital Part of SA’s Murray Heritage – River Lakes Coorong Action Group, Ruth Trigg

  

  

• Let the Murray Flow to the Sea – Coalition of Concerned River Murray Communities, David Peake

  

• A River Dammed and dammed - Hallett Shueard

  

• Murray-Darling Basin – Fair Water Use (Australia), Ian Douglas

  

Street Theatre: Jim Douglas

Apologies: John Caldecott

Responses from invited politicians

Mitch Williams MP

David Winderlich MLC

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young

Robert Brokenshire MLC

Mark Parnell MLC

Proclamation of Hope: John Schumann

WAC Rally Proclamation: Richard Watson

Chant: “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink”

Celebration.