Lake Eyre Basin Rivers 246 GVK Hancock Coal partnership 176 Gwydir River 164, 165 Hamilton River 104, 114, 196, 197 Heads of Agreement 1997 216 ‘heads of power’ 206 ‘Heart of Australia’ poster 88–9 heat waves, climate change and 110 heavy metals 178 Hebel 127, 128, 129 hedonic pricing 161 Henry V (Shakespeare) 152, 158 herons (Ardea sp.) 11 highly endangered species, fish 37 High Preservation Areas (HPAs) 157, 206, 207, 208, 210, 217, 218 historical land connections, Aboriginal people 92–106 Hobbs, Howard 156 household willingness to pay model 161–4 house mouse (Mus musculus) 70, 71 Hunter Valley 116, 176 hydraulic fracturing (fracking) 152, 186, 188, 197 support for 209 hydrological modelling 141 Cooper Creek 154–5 Lake Eyre Basin 19–21, 28, 235 river flows 204 hydrological processes 44, 51, 206, 218, 232 Hyrtl’s tandan (Neosiluris hyrtlii) 33, 34, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50 ibis (Threskiornis sp.) 11 impoundments 51 in between flows 9 Inca Creek 183, 184 Indigenous people floodplains and 114, 115 water legislation and 215 Wild Rivers declarations and 218 see also Aboriginal people Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) 63 Indigenous rangers 89, 105, 106 Indigenous Reserve (water) 204 Indigenous rights, Lake Eyre Basin 215, 216 indirect economic benefit 160, 161, 170 Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people 103 industry water monitoring 19 Initial Advice Statement 152 Innamincka 7, 8, 12, 20, 24, 57, 119, 124, 125, 176, 195 Institute for Wildlife Research 156 instream structures 206, 208 integrated catchment planning 78, 83 intensive agriculture, threat from 153 interannual variability 24, 25, 26 intergovernmental coordination, Lake Eyre Basin 85–7 intermediate egret (Ardea intermedia) 145 intermittent river flows 50, 119–22 internal drainage, Lake Eyre Basin 43 International Ecological Conference 1996 156 International Riverprize 2015 x, 7, 14, 78, 91, 237 international tourism 124 introduced species 40, 233, 234 inundation, Lake Eyre Basin 77 invasive species 87, 105, 207, 230, 233 alien 35, 38–9, 40, 43, 47, 50, 233 control of 85 Culgoa floodplain and 139 fish 38–9 springs and 37 threat from 14, 71 invertebrates 9, 71 turtles and 56, 57 iron ore 175 irrigation 6, 12, 13, 26–7, 51, 64, 128, 138, 197, 209, 215 economic costs 167, 169, 170 habitat destruction and 70–1 management of 71, 72 prohibition 83, 215 promotion 88 Queensland regulations 204 threats from 110, 121, 126, 207, 208, 223 water diversion and 230, 232 irrigation development 78, 79 Condamine–Balonne Basin and 141–2 Cooper Creek and 151–8 expansion of 134 Flinders River 234 Lower Balonne catchment and 127–35, 220, 221 Macquarie Marshes and 145–8 Murray–Darling Basin 137–8 opposition to 216, 225 proposals 78, 84, 99, 100, 101, 215, 216, 222 Queensland rivers 203, 204, 205 St George River 219 threats from 127–35, 152, 155 irrigation diversion, costs 159 irrigation licences, increase 222 Jack Taylor Weir 139, 219 Jones family 148 Jones, Kate 157 Judicial Review Act 1991 (Qld) 216, 221 Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre v, 3, 7, 8, 11, 33, 43, 55, 101, 107, 108, 109, 114–15, 195, 196 conservation partnerships and 78 flooding events 151–2 sustainable economics of 123–6 see also Lake Eyre Basin Keating, Paul 115 Kevin’s Corner coal mine 176 Kidman, Sidney 6, 115 King Creek 196, 197 Kingsford, Richard 156 Koowarta v State of Queensland (2014) 223–4 Kruse family 119–20 Kurrithala Tjimpa (Black Hawk) 95 Kyabra Creek 33, 154, 195 Labor Government (Qld) 82, 83, 98, 157, 198, 200, 205, 207, 215 Lachlan River 121, 164, 165 Lady Annie copper mine 13, 174, 182–4, 236 pollution from 161, 232