LETTER: Solutions are found in water infrastructure

Water conservation peaked in Australia in 1972 – our last big dam was Wivenhoe in Queensland built 35 years ago. Elsewhere in Australia, water conservation virtually stopped when Don Dunstan halted the building of Chowilla Dam on the Murray in 1970 and Bob Brown’s Greens halted the Franklin Dam in 1983 (and almost every other […]

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    University vice-chancellor steps down

    CANBERRA: Embattled Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned after a year-long public relations saga involving bullying claims, student protests and claims of poor…