Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the...

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Richard Beasley

Dead in the Water

A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling...

Richard Beasley

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Allen & Unwin
02 February 2021

Central government policies; Mathematics & Sciences; Management of land & natural resources

'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons

'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel

'It's great to shed some more light on the policy creep and mismanagement that is driving environmental degradation of many of the Murray-Darling Basin rivers.' Professor Richard Kingsford, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

'We want to reset these bio-diversities and the ecologies in our country. We want to see our fish spawning as they once were, our animals coming back down to drink. Fresh quality water out of the Coorong, not this super saline stuff that we're living in today's environment. It's slowly dying. You can smell the impact of what's happening . . .' Grant Rigney, Ngarrindjeri Nation, from his sworn evidence at the Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin.

Richard Beasley is fed up. He's fed up with vested interests killing off Australia's most precious water resource. He's fed up with the cowardice and negligence that have allowed Big Agriculture and irrigators to destroy a river system that can sustain both the environment and the communities that depend on it. He's fed up that a noble plan to save Murray-Darling Basin based on the 'best scientific knowledge' has instead been corroded by lies, the denial of climate change, pseudoscience and political expediency.

He pulls no punches. He's provocative, he's outrageous, he points the finger without shame. And he will leave you very, very angry. Dead in the Water would be political satire of the highest order . . . if it weren't so tragically true.

By: Richard Beasley
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9781760878450
ISBN 10: 1760878456
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 02 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Beasley is a Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar. He was the Counsel Assisting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Royal Commission, established by the South Australian Weatherill Government in 2018 and conducted by Bret Walker SC. Apart from that, he is the author of five commercial novels, the best-known of which is Hell Has Harbour Views, which was adapted for TV and screened by the ABC, starring Lisa McCune and Matt Day.