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Don’t Damn the Macquarie
Healthy Rivers Dubbo produced this ad for regional TV to educate the community on the dangers of a new re-regulating weir on the Macquarie River. This weir will catch important tributary flows and make them available for irrigation, depriving the river, Macquarie Marshes and downstream communities vital flows. -
Macquarie community rallies for the River.
Healthy Rivers Dubbo has launched a community powered campaign featuring television, radio and newspaper advertisements
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Stop the Macquarie re-regulating weir at Gin Gin
The proposed re regulating weir at Gin Gin, between Narromine and Warren on the Macquarie River would be a disaster for our rivers and downstream communities. -
Revive Our Rivers
All around the Murray Darling people are calling for more buy backs of water to revive our rivers.
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No New Weir at Gin Gin
Don’t Damn the Macquarie
Revive Our Rivers
The Murray Mouth
Our Vision for Dubbo’s Floodplain
Right now, there are discussions being had about the future of Dubbo’s riverside land. While the vast majority of people that we’ve spoken to want the land to remain open public parkland, there is a private rugby club who have…
Blackwater in the Darling-Baaka
Blackwater event happen when a lot leaf litter and other carbon from floodplains is washed into rivers during big flood events. When floods become less regular, the healthy balance is lost – too much carbon builds up and blackwater events…
Media Release: Transparency from NSW Government still hard to find.
30th January 2022 Repeated calls for the NSW Government to publically release the final business cases for a series of dam proposals continue to be ignored, despite the government ranking improved transparency as their number one priority in the State…
Read More Media Release: Transparency from NSW Government still hard to find.
Freshwater Mussels in the Murray Darling Basin
They are amazing biofilters, playing a crucial role in keeping rivers healthy. An abundant food source for First Nations Peoples, Freshwater Mussels are a critically important part of the web of life. Once, they were second only to fish as…
Proposed re-regulating dam set to destroy the best Murray Cod breeding spots in the Macquarie-Wambuul River
Media Release – Thursday 18th November 2021 The most important breeding sites for threatened Murray Cod in the Wambuul-Macquarie River have been identified in a report[1] released by the Commonwealth Government on Thursday, and they are right where the NSW…
Support the Gin Gin dam campaign here!
Don’t damn the Macquarie – No Gin Gin dam! Support our work here We are a group of people living in the Dubbo and Barwon electorates whose future relies on the long term sustainability of the Macquarie-Wambuul River and its connectivity with…
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