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July 2, 2008
It's a case of walking backwards isn't it, when it comes to saving the River Murray. They--irrigators, river communities and state governments, are still looking back to the golden times, and hoping that they will return. History turns in circles apparently. What goes round comes round as it were.
Too little, too late, and far too slow. That's my judgement on the big plans by the state and commonwealth governments to save the stricken reaches of the lower Murray River. It's mostly talk and little action, isn't it.
I'm going to try and get down to the Murray Mouth on the weekend if I can, and take some photos of what is going on down there. People are talking in terms of an ecological collapse of the lower Lakes and the Ramsar listed Corrong wetlands. Large format landscape photography, based on looking at the world through a groundglass, needs to engage with this issue rather than just express the beauty of the landscape in the sense of having moved the beyond the pretty picture.
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Nicely composed picture.