McCaughey’s story is just one thread in the rich fabric of the 950km Darling River Run, a road-tripper’s delight that stretches from Brewarrina in NSW’s central north, west to Bourke and ...

Once a liquid highway for paddle steamers that enabled small farming towns to trade with larger communities, the Darling River today is an empty trench. And now the Greens are more likely to ...

Sunset at Wilcannia on the Darling River Run. Picture: Toby Zerna By the 1890s the Darling River was awash with more than ninety smoke-blowing paddle-steamers, often towing long barges piled high ...

Water flows in mainland Australia's most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, have been declining for the past 50 years. The trend has largely been blamed on water extraction ...

Graeme McCrabb assessing the Darling River. He regularly takes his ... Over-extraction means parts of the river run dry more often, he said, and the small and medium-sized floods that used to ...

CLIMATE change is being used as a "get out of jail free card" to excuse the poor water management and over extraction of the Darling River, which have seen the iconic waterway's flow drastically ...

But it’s ignored that in fact the river would invariably, and notoriously, run dry. The fact that between 1885 and 1960 the Darling River dried up 45 times seems to have been conveniently lost ...

Water flows in mainland Australia’s most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, have been declining for the past 50 years. The trend has largely been blamed on water extraction ...