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| UpdatedA 52-year-old man is arrested over the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a European backpacker in South Australia's Murray Mallee region.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA European backpacker, who police feared was being held against her will in South Australia's Murraylands region, is found safe in Murray Bridge.
Topics: missing-person, police, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, sa, adelaide-5000
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ABC cameraman Trent Murphy uses a drone to film SA's Coorong.
Topics: water, environment, water-management, meningie-5264, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, sa
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Drone footage of South Australia's Coorong, where huge environmental benefits have come from good River Murray flows.
Topics: water, environment, water-management, meningie-5264, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, sa
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| UpdatedA prominent ecologist suggests a weir should be built in South Australia's Coorong to ensure flows do not drop below critical levels.
Topics: water, environment, water-management, meningie-5264, murray-bridge-5253, tailem-bend-5260, sa
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Damaging winds over the weekend beach a paddle steamer on mudflats on the edge of Lake Albert, south-east of Adelaide.
Topics: community-and-society, environment, history, meningie-5264, sa
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| UpdatedFirecrackers will be detonated underwater by professional fishing crews to try and scare fur seals from the lower Murray and Coorong regions south of Adelaide.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-management, environment, fishing-aquaculture, rural, meningie-5264, goolwa-5214, clayton-5256, sa
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A trial is underway to reduce the impact of long-nosed fur seals on the Coorong fishing industry by using pyrotechnics to deter them from attacking fisher catches and nets.
Topics: animals, environmental-impact, environment, environmental-management, murray-darling-basin, sa, meningie-5264
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Barrages near the Murray Mouth in South Australia are to be made "uncomfortable" as a strategy to curb the rapidly expanding long-nosed fur seal population.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, endangered-and-protected-species, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Senator Anne Ruston's appointment as Assistant Water Minister boosts hopes the bottom end of the Murray-Darling system will not be forgotten under the leadership of the Nationals.
Topics: water-management, irrigation, nationals, federal---state-issues, environmental-policy, murray-darling-basin, water, renmark-5341, meningie-5264, mount-gambier-5290, murray-bridge-5253
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A local MP says he has been denied access to a working committee tasked with managing disproportionate numbers of fur seals in South Australia's Coorong and Lower Lakes.
Topics: animals, environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, meningie-5264, sa
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| UpdatedA man's body is found inside a burnt-out caravan on a rural property in the Coorong National Park in South Australia's south-east.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, meningie-5264, sa, australia
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A street artist pastes a mural of Indigenous soldiers from World War I on a wall at Meningie, south of Adelaide.
Topics: street-art, arts-and-entertainment, world-war-1, history, community-and-society, meningie-5264, sa
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A three-year project is underway to look at the cause of tree decline and death in South Australia's Coorong and Tatiara regions.
Topics: environmental-management, sa, waikerie-5330, bordertown-5268, keith-5267, meningie-5264, tailem-bend-5260
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Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, narrung-5259, meningie-5264
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Figures from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority show how variable flows at the end of the system river can be. This show the flows that leave the barrages in the Murray at the very end of the river system.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, meningie-5264, narrung-5259
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| UpdatedDredging will be undertaken this summer at the mouth of the Murray River to keep it flowing out to sea.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, meningie-5264, narrung-5259
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All sides of the Murray-Darling debate agree dredging is needed to keep the basin healthy but say money must be spent to improve the lower lakes.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, narrung-5259, meningie-5264
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About 16,000 households in South Australia's Riverland and Murraylands will be connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) over the next 18 months.
Topics: information-and-communication, community-and-society, programs-and-initiatives, renmark-5341, tailem-bend-5260, meningie-5264, berri-5343, loxton-5333
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The Coorong District Council says Meningie will continue to build on its success, ahead of KESAB's National Tidy Town Awards in February.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, environmental-management, meningie-5264, mount-gambier-5290, mundulla-5270, naracoorte-5271
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| UpdatedA plan by the South Australian Government to use fresh water from the River Murray to lower salinity in Lake Albert is continuing to divide opinions in the local community.
Topics: irrigation, agricultural-policy, water-management, murray-darling-basin, meningie-5264
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Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, meningie-5264
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Third generation lake fisherman Garry Hera-Singh says NZ fur seals are decimating the commercial fishing in the Coorong and lower lakes.
Topics: mining-rural, rural, meningie-5264
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Fishermen are tearing their hair out over a growing seal problem.
Topics: rural, fishing-aquaculture, endangered-and-protected-species, meningie-5264, australia
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Ecologist Professor David Paton from the University of Adelaide is in favour of the Government's plan to cycle water through Lake Albert to reduce salinity.
Topics: irrigation, rural, environmental-policy, meningie-5264