Published in The Weekend Australian, February 24- 25, 2001
A 2,500 km journey down the Murray River reveals a once might water course in need of desperate relief.
Sold down the river
May 17th, 2007The Australian Century: The Land
May 17th, 2007Published in The Weekend Australian, February 24-25, 2001
This tough resilient continent is finally earning due respect from its erstwhile conquers, argues Asa Wahlquist.
Something in the Eyre
May 17th, 2007Lake Eyre floods. The Australian Magazine, May 20- 21, 2000
Water Wars
May 3rd, 2007World Science Journalism Conference, Melbourne, April 18, 2007
Water Wars: The challenges and opportunities for a science/environment journalist reporting on water issues.
Åsa Wahlquist
I first became interested in reporting on water in December 1991. A one thousand kilometre long, toxic blue-green algal bloom was infesting the Darling River, Australia’s longest river that runs through western NSW. It made headlines around the world.
Keynote address, Regional Australia Summit, Parliament House, October 1999
May 3rd, 20071. Regional Australia SummitParliament House, October 1999
Keynote address, Asa Wahlquist
Life in Australia is changing. None of us can avoid it, whether we live in the inner city, remote Australia, in the suburbs or a regional town.
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Reporting of Rural Australia: fearless or fair?
May 3rd, 2007Organised by the Australia Centre for Independent Journalism, seminar Armidale 9th October 2000
By Åsa Wahlquist.
The topic Reporting of rural Australia: fearless or fair? assumes there is reporting of country Australia to judge.
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The Murray in Myth, history and reality.
May 3rd, 2007Presented to Saving the Murray, problems and prospectsOrganised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Flinders University, Adelaide
February 16, 2001
Åsa Wahlquist, Rural Writer The Australian
The Murray is a river that for too long has divided us.
Media and public perceptions of drought
May 3rd, 2007Bureau of Rural Sciences Seminar 13 June, 2003
Media and public perceptions of drought
Åsa Wahlquist
On Wednesday this week the Melbourne Age ran a story headed “Australia’s seven year drought is largely over”.
As Blair Trewin from the National Climate Centre, who pointed it out to me, said, they’ve done well: two mistakes in just seven words.
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Zac’s blog 3
May 2nd, 2007Zac here again. I was playing with my stuffed echidna when Åsa suggested I write about him. I love my echidna. I love tearing around the house when I get home looking for him, and then taking a great leap when I see him, landing on him with both front paws. It is even better if he is on the wood floor and we slide together. When I am excited I shake him like mad. When I am tired I like to lie with my head on him, or turn him over and nose his tummy. Åsa calls it mumbling him. Sometime she hides him and I have to find him. It is just the best fun.
Zac’s blog 2
April 24th, 2007Hi, Zac here again.
It is raining and we are staying home. Åsa is worried we are not getting an evening walk, I think she thinks the RSPCA will ring her up and get cross with her for only giving us one walk today. We don't like walking in the rain. I mean, we really don't like walking in the rain. When it is wet Clancy won't even go out on the front veranda, he just hides behind the front door, looking anxious. I'll go on the veranda, got to keep an eye on the lane, but no way am I jumping a flooded gutter. Åsa looks sadly at the gutter and says all that good water should be used instead of rushing out into the bay, but I can't think of any good use for water except drinking, and you don't need much for that.