Lake Eyre Basin Rivers 242 boom periods 22 fish ecology 45, 48–50 flooding 109 irrigation and 70–1 turtles and 60–1 Border Rivers 164, 165, 169 Boulia 36, 104, 114, 196 Bowen Basin 174, 176, 185, 186 Bradfield Scheme 12 breeding cow industry 128 Brenda Station 137, 138–9 Brewarrina 127, 128, 134, 141 Brisbane 124, 160 Broadwater Billabong 57, 60 Broken Hill 124, 174 brown coal 175 brush-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus blythi) 66, 67, 69 Buckley River 183, 184, 232 buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) 14, 70, 233–4 Bullabellalie 127, 128, 133 Bulloo River 33, 38 Bunn, Stuart 156 Bureau of Meteorology 19, 139 Burke River 114, 196, 197 Burke, Robert O’Hara 4, 6, 154 Burrendong Dam 145, 147 bust conditions 66 fish ecology and 45 irrigation and 71 butterflies 70 camel (Camelus dromedarius) 14, 234 Camooweal 65, 103, 104, 105 Campaspe River 164, 165 campfires, threat from 104 cane toad (Rhinella marina) 14, 70, 71, 233 Cape York Peninsula, Aboriginal opposition to Wild Rivers legislation 215, 217, 223, 224 capped aquifers 205 carbon sink 71, 168 Carmichael mine 176, 177 carp (Cyprinus carpio) 38, 40 carp dudgeon (Hypseleotris sp.) 33, 34, 46, 48 catchment management committees 91 catchment protection mechanisms 217 catch-per-unit-effort 66 cattle grazing industry 6, 61, 78, 107–9, 115, 127–8, 137 Macquarie Marshes 145–8 organic production 113–17 Century mine 177 Channel Country 8, 9, 10, 20, 22, 43, 65, 82, 95, 99, 108, 110, 113, 114, 116, 160, 161, 187, 195, 199, 208, 209, 215, 223, 224 developmental impacts threats to 151–8, 233 flow alterations 210 protection of 117, 151–2, 216 Traditional Owners and 100, 101 channel flows 20, 44, 51, 154 chemical pollution, threat of 153, 188 Chief Executive, water agency 205, 221 China 176, 189 Chinchilla 177, 187, 232 Chinese ‘gardeners’ 12, 13 Chlamydogobius sp. 37 choice modelling 161–2 Clark Shaft failure 182 ‘clean and green’ beef industry 115–16, 117 climate change 71, 230 arid regions and 13–14, 110 coal seam gas industry and 187 habitat destruction and 70 Lake Eyre Basin 3, 236 river sustainability and 233, 234 coal industry 169, 170, 173, 174, 176, 197 coal seam gas (CSG) industry 70, 100, 169, 170, 173, 174, 176, 177, 189, 197 Lake Eyre Basin 232 moratorium on 222 Queensland 185, 186–7 threats from 158, 188 collaborative legislation 216 collaborative management, Lake Eyre Basin 83, 99, 224, 225 collaborative planning, Birdsville Conference 84 Colorado 188 commercial fishing 159 Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 148 community action and consultation Lake Eyre Basin 88–9, 222–3, 237 river protection 210 sustainability and 234, 235 water allocation debate 148 Wild Rivers declarations and 218 Community Advisory Committee 79, 81, 86, 87, 88, 89, 97, 215, 224 Community Reference Group 141–2 Computable General Equilibrium (GCA) modelling 169 Condamine–Balonne Rivers catchment 13, 100, 127, 164, 165, 219–22 environmental flower reduction 133–4 irrigation and 128–35, 137–43 overdevelopment 231 Condamine River 137, 138, 169, 219 connective pathways 44 Conservation Council of South Australia 155 conservation partnerships 63, 77–93, 158 conservation values, Lake Eyre Basin 43 conservative dispersal, fish species 50 consumer organisms 66 consumptive water regulations 204 consumptive water use, Lower Balonne catchment 221 contingent valuation 161–2 conventional gas production 175, 176 Cooper–Eromanga Basin 184–6 Coober Pedy 123, 124, 126, 174 coolibah (Eucalyptus coolabah) 131, 139 Coongie Lakes v, 3, 4, 8, 23, 24, 25, 50, 91, 96, 119, 200 Coongie Lakes Ramsar Management Plan 92 cooperative management 110 Cooper Basin 174, 175, 176, 197 Cooper Basin Water Strategy 209 Cooper Creek x, 4, 6, 7–8, 11, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31, 33, 38, 39, 43, 65, 83, 84, 95, 96, 99, 102, 107, 108, 114, 170, 195, 196, 198, 203, 206, 209, 215, 216, 218, 231, 235, 236