by Andrew Kelly | Sep 24, 2026 | Articles
This is a bit of a rehash of a LinkedIn post but this is an important piece of thinking for outline some detail on how we might approach the Living Entity thinking so well worth a repost. Here is the Coastal Waterways and Wetlands Alliance submission on the Western...
by Andrew Kelly | Jul 31, 2026 | Articles
When I started as Yarra Riverkeeper I was ignorant of flows, envionmental flows, and ‘diversion was an entertainment an ‘consumptive’ was something to with TB. It was a steep and exciting learning curve. The Yarra Environmental Water Plan, says in...
by Andrew Kelly | Jul 25, 2026 | Articles
I have collected here recent submissions from the Concerned Waterways Alliance, in celebration of the five year mark for the Alliance. During those five years the Alliance has grown in knowledge and understanding about the success and failings of water policy here in...
by Andrew Kelly | Nov 25, 2024 | Articles
I am thrilled, nay delighted, to be uploading. This has been a longer haul than seemed necessary since we first mooted with the Yarra Riverkeepers that they follow on from their response to the first report, and then took it on ourselves from our own slim resources....
by Andrew Kelly | Sep 6, 2024 | Articles
Here is a distillation of an interview with Anthony Despotellis, the Yarra Riverkeeper polystyrene officer. The interview was conducted just before he headed overseas. Sources and solutions I first came on borard in March 2020 when I designed Nikki’s report...
by Andrew Kelly | Jul 9, 2024 | Articles
In the patch of land I have behind a village on Western Port I am creating an ephemeral wetland, the most biodiverse of wetlands. Well trying to, and it has been such a treat to try. Ecological experiments Like everything I do on this plot, my wetland is an ecological...
