Index 243 boom and bust ecology 43–54 irrigation development threats to 78, 79, 80, 151–8 oil and petroleum industry and 232 Cooper Creek Advisory Panel 155 Cooper Creek campaign 1995 160 Cooper Creek catchment 85, 195, 214 flooding 119–22 Cooper Creek Catchment Committee 121, 207 Cooper Creek catfish (Neosiluroides cooperensis) 33, 34, 36, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51 Cooper Creek Resource Operations Plan 204, 209 Cooper Creek Scientific Workshop 80 Cooper Creek tandan 49 Cooper Creek turtle (Emydura macquarii emmottii) 55, 57–60 Cooper Creek Water Resource Plan 2011 (Qld) 81, 83, 91–2, 203, 204, 205, 208, 215, 216–17, 232 Cooper Creek Zone 196, 204 Cooper–Eromanga Basin, oil and gas extraction 176, 184–6 Cooper’s Creek Protection Group 79, 80, 153–4, 155, 158, 215 Coordinator-General (Qld) 198, 199, 200, 203 Coorong, environmental value of 162, 166, 167 copper mining 175, 177, 179, 180, 181 Lady Annie Mine 182–4 corkwood (Duboisia hopwoodii) 104 cormorants (Phalacrocorax sp.) 10 cost–benefit analysis development proposals 237 economic environmental values 236 Lake Eyre Basin and 169 minerals industries 189 Murray–Darling Basin 165–6 cotton irrigation industry, see irrigation irrigation development Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Water Reform Framework 215, 216 court cases, Lower Balonne catchment flows 220–1 Court of Appeal (Qld) 221 Cripps, Andrew 100, 157, 158, 207, 222, 223 critically endangered species, fish 31 cross-border committees 215 cross-border flows 204 crude oil production 175, 184 Cubbie Station 127, 129, 131, 138 water licences litigation 220–1 Culgoa National Park 139 Culgoa River 127, 133, 219, 220 water flow reduction impacts 137–43 Cullen, Peter 132, 141 Cullyamurra Waterhole 12, 20, 25, 154 Cumulative Management Area 201 cumulative production Mount Isa field 179 Olympic Dam 181 Currareva 22, 27, 83, 153, 154, 215 Currareva irrigation development 13, 79, 80, 152–3, 155, 216 Currareva Partnership v Welford (2000) 215 custodianship Macquarie Marshes 148–9 Queensland legislation 202, 203 cyclones 108, 114 daily water flow 26 dams 7, 12, 19 construction 220, 221, 230, 231 prohibition of 232 Darling River 127, 132, 134 water flow reductions 167 Darling, Vicki 157 darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) 10 Davies, Peter 156 Delbessie agreements 202 Denny, Martin 156 Department of Environment and Natural Resources (SA) 155 Department of Environment and Resource Management (Qld) 214 Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (Qld) 224 Department of Natural Resources (Qld) 139, 141, 155, 156–7 Department of Natural Resources and Mines (Qld) 207, 214 Department of the Environment (Qld) 155 desalination 161 desert channels 65–6, 78, 89, 121, 207 desert rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida tatei) 33, 34, 45, 46, 50 desert river system, Lake Eyre Basin 3–18 desert uplands 65 desert wildlife, developmental plans and 63–74 developmental assistance programs 63 developmental threats, rivers and 12–14 Diamantina River x, 12, 13, 21, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 57, 65, 95, 99, 103, 104, 107, 108, 113–14, 121, 152, 153, 161, 170, 195, 196, 198, 203, 204, 206, 209, 214 dingo (Canis dingo) 70 direct use values 159–60, 161, 170 Dirranbandi 127, 128, 129, 132 diversion channels 220 documentaries 123, 151–2 Draft Water Management Plan, Cooper Creek 1998 80, 156–7, 215 dragonflies 70 Dreaming 103 dredging costs 166, 167 drought 2006 114 Dryland River Refugia Project 52 dry periods 109 farming and 137 fish ecology 45 Lake Eyre Basin 125 Macquarie Marshes 146 river flows and 139 turtles and 56 waterholes and 10, 60 dunes 65 eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) 71 eastern long-necked turtle (Chelodina longicollis) 56–7, 59 ecological integrity 12, 232 Condamine-Balonne Basin 141 irrigation development threats to 153, 154 maintenance of 217