Index 245 future of 214 Georgina–Diamantina catchment 197 grazing and 82, 142 inundation 56 Lake Eyre Basin 8 landholders and 107 Lower Balonne River 127–35, 225 management 219–20, 224, 235 protection of 100, 216, 217 scientific report 141 threats to 221, 230, 232–3, 237 transmission losses and 21–3 floods 1974 154 floods 1983 137 floods 2000 50, 120, 123 floods 2010–11 89, 123, 124 flotation mill 181 flow allocations, abolition of 142 flow diversion, threat of 56 flow fraction 22 flow paths 21, 23 flow persistence 70–1 flow variability 43, 108, 109 fish habitats and 52 maintenance of 91 flow volumes 48, 86 changes in 24–5, 26, 51 ecology and 110 Macquarie River 146 management of 235 monitoring 28 focus monitoring 89, 90 food and fibre demands 64, 236 food resources, Cooper Creek turtle 58 forest products removal 206 foxes (Vulpes vulpes) 14, 70 fracking, see hydraulic fracturing Fraser Island 58 free-flowing rivers objective 91 freehold grants 202 free-standing water, Cooper Creek turtle and 57 freshwater animals 3, 104 freshwater crab (Austrothelphusa transversa) 9 freshwater lakes 8, 11 freshwater turtles, Cooper Creek 55–62 frogs 9, 70, 71 frontier mining areas 177 fugitive emissions, coal seam gas industry 187 Fukushima nuclear accident 181 future prospects Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre tourism 126 Lake Eyre Basin 89–91, 109–11, 209–10 Lower Balonne system 133–4 fyke nets 44, 48 Galilee Basin 174, 175, 176, 186, 197 gambusia (Gambusia holbrooki) 35, 37–8, 40 gas exploration licences 176 Gaslands (Fox) 188 gas reserves, Lake Eyre Basin 177 gauging stations 19, 20–1, 204 General Reserve (water) 204, 205 general security licence 231 geomorphic processes 206, 218 Georgina–Diamantina catchment 7, 11, 85, 196, 197, 214, 215, 231, 235, 236 Georgina–Diamantina Catchment Committee 207 Georgina–Diamantina Catchment Management Plan 81 Georgina–Diamantina Resource Operations Plan (ROPs) 205 Georgina–Diamantina Water Resource Plan (WRP) 157, 203, 204 Georgina River x, 9, 13, 21, 31, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40, 48, 65, 95, 99, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 113–14, 152, 170, 195–6, 198, 203, 204, 206, 209, 214 germination events 77 gidgee (Acacia georginae) 66 Gippsland Basin 184 glassfish (Ambassis sp.) 33, 34, 36, 44, 48, 50 goannas 3, 14 golden goby (Glossogobius aureus) 34, 36 goldfish (Carassius auratus) 14, 38, 40, 43, 47 gold mining 174, 175, 177, 181, 182 Goodooga 127, 128, 130 Goulburn–Broken Rivers 164 governance, Queensland Wild Rivers legislation 213–27 governments cotton growing and 78 water resource developments and 234–7 see also Australian Government Northern Territory Government Queensland Government South Australian Government Goyder’s Lagoon 4, 11, 36, 196 grazing industry 6, 14, 64, 71, 167 cotton growing and 78 Cubbie Station water licences and 221 direct costs 236 economic value of 169 flooding and 161 floodplains and 137, 233, 234 irrigation threats to 129–30 Lake Eyre Basin water resources 82, 222, 224 mining threats to 178 river flows and 231 water licences and 131, 219 Windorah 88 Great Artesian Basin 4, 7, 9, 50, 174, 203 fish ecology 31–42 sustainability 208 water access 205 Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Plan (WRP) 205 Great Dividing Range 8, 12 Great Nowranie Cave 105 greenhouse gas emissions coal seam gas industry and 187 Olympic Dam site 182, 183 restrictions on 236 gross economic value 169 groundwater 7, 22, 98, 189, 205 access to 207 coal seam gas industry and 186–7 contamination 70 minerals industries and 197 policy 98 regulatory mechanisms 203 shale gas industry and 188