Index 249 no-flow recruitment strategies 45, 50 no-flow spawning 46, 47 non-freehold land management 202 non-use values 159–61, 169, 170 Murray–Darling Basin 164, 167 North America 55, 115 Northern Basin Review 133, 134, 139, 142, 148 Northern Territory v, 7, 31, 37, 40, 78, 79, 81, 195, 196, 224 Northern Territory Government 81, 86, 87, 110, 195, 234 north-west ambassis (Ambassis sp.) 44, 46 North-west Branch 23, 24, 25 nuclear weapons, rare earths mining and 189 observed water level 26 off-river storages, banning of 204 oil prices, shale gas industry and 188 Olsen, Mike 156 Olympic Dam Mine 174, 177, 181–3 Oodnadatta 120, 126 open cut mines 178 controls of 208 Lady Annie Mine 182 Mount Isa 179 prohibition of 215 ore milling, Mount Isa 180 organic production, beef industry 113–17 overland flows 131–2, 205, 208 overnight visitor numbers, Murray–Darling Basin 166 Palmer, Clive 176 parkinsonia (Parkinsonia aculeate) 14 Paroo River 155, 164 participatory process, dilution of 217 pastoral industry 63, 85, 89, 105, 153, 196 Channel Country 151 Great Artesian Basin and 205 introduced species and 70 Lake Eyre Basin 160 river flows and 19 World Heritage Listing and 80 Pedirka Basin 174, 175, 176 pelicans 3, 5, 95, 97 ‘people and place’ 88 Perth 124, 215 Petroleum Act 1923 (Qld) 202 petroleum and gas industry 100, 106, 117, 152, 158, 174, 176, 184–6, 187, 197, 208 deregulation 209 floodplains and 232 Lake Eyre Basin 222 limitation of 217 research 157 water management 205 Wild Rivers legislation and 218 Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (Qld) 202, 203, 206 pipelines 218 pitfall traps 66 Planning Act 2016 (Qld) 199 plant food 104 plant germination 11 plant pests 236 pollutants 13, 230 Lady Annie Mine 161 Mount Isa 179 prevention of 85, 236 Port Augusta 87, 126, 176 predation 38–9, 71 preference measurement techniques 161 prickly acacia (Vachellia nilotica) 14, 233 private gain, public cost versus 231 private storages, Balonne River 129 production losses, Brenda Station 139 production resources 2013, minerals and energy 175 production totals, Olympic Dam 182 Projects of State Significance (Queensland) 203, 204 property values 161, 168 public participation 209, 213, 214 Puckridge, Jim 156 pumped water, Lower Balonne River catchment 210, 219, 236 quarry materials removal 206 Queensland v, x, 7, 33, 36, 38, 40, 64, 65, 68, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 107, 114, 126, 127, 132, 133, 137, 138, 139, 151, 154, 155, 169, 176, 177, 184, 185, 186, 195, 196, 197, 205, 214, 232 coal seam gas (CSG) industry 186–7, 189 fish ecology 31–42 policy changes 89 Queensland Conservation Council 155 Queensland Cotton Industry Policy Council 155 Queensland Government 13, 19, 64, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 87, 97, 110, 131, 137, 139, 195, 216 irrigation industry and 131–2, 141–2, 155 legislative framework 198–202 mineral exploration licences 186 water resource management and 203, 214, 231, 234, 235 Wild Rivers legislation 213–27 Queensland Water Commission 214, 219 radioactive wastes 178, 188, 189 rainbowfish 48, 50 rainfall events 1991–2011 66 rainfall patterns 14, 20 climate change and 236 desert channel country 65 Ethabuka Reserve 68 variability 55, 68, 69 Ramsar Convention listing 23, 127, 130, 137, 145, 200, 221 rare earths oxides (REOs) extraction 175, 177, 178, 181, 188–9 recreational fishing 38, 44 recreation industries 63, 159 recreation values 161, 165, 166, 168, 169–70 recruitment strategies fish 45, 48 turtles 60 red claw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) 14, 39, 40, 105, 233 redfin (Perca fluviatilis) 38 red-finned blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) 35, 37–8, 50