

We want the film to draw attention to the ongoing disaster and to the dubious political processes that have enabled mismanagement and alleged corruption. The Darling River’s waters have been overallocated to irrigation for decades, and efforts to return environmental flows to sustainable levels have been met with organised resistance.

When the River Runs Dry seeks to bring an ecological and social catastrophe to the attention of Australians and people around the world. The painting comes signed on the back and front. It must be managed as a whole, for the good of all Highly textured original painting that comes stretched and ready to hang. The Murray Darling Basin Plan needs to be reviewed.A Federal Royal Commission is needed to restore confidence.The management of Australia’s rivers needs to be consistent with the Water Act (2007).Australia needs to be honest about what is happening.
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Aboriginal people should be directly involved in water management decisions on their rivers Id like good, kind government, a clean and thriving environment full of natural beauty and a canopy the.Piguenit was an esteemed Romanticrealist painter, described as ‘the last important colonial landscape painter in Australia. Aboriginal people should have rights to water The flood in the Darling 1890, heralded as WC Piguenit’s ‘chef d’oeuvre’, provides a stunning example of how beauty masked the ecological and cultural violence of colonialisation.

