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Media Releases

All past media releases from Goulburn Broken CMA, listed chronologically.
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Current Issues and Events

Current Issues
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SIRLWMP Animation

Wednesday 13 March 2024
The Shepparton Irrigation Region Land and Water Management Plan is a long title for what is a simple ideal. It was designed more than 30 years ago to look after the land, the water and the communities of the SIR.

Draft Plan Released for Public Consultation

Tuesday 5 March 2024
The Shepparton Irrigation Region Land and Water Management Plan (SIRLWMP) has been renewed and a draft plan is now open for public consultation.
Dusky Woodswallow on a paddock tree. Photo Chris Tzaros

Dead or alive, old paddock trees are important to keep

Monday 4 March 2024
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s 2024 Year of the Wing highlights the birds and bats in our local landscape and the habitat they need to survive, which includes large old paddock trees.

Native bats take on insect control

Monday 4 March 2024
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority is celebrating birds and bats in 2024 with the ‘Year of the Wing’ community awareness campaign. This month, microbats are featured.
Western Gerygone by Catarina Gregson

Local songbird is music to the ears

Thursday 1 February 2024
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority is celebrating birds and bats in 2024 with the ‘Year of the Wing’ community awareness campaign. This month, the Western Gerygone bird is featured.
Turquoise Parrot by Chris Tzaros. Gould’s Wattled Bat by William Terry.

Fly into 2024 with Year of the Wing

Friday 12 January 2024
The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority is pleased to announce 2024 is the ‘Year of the Wing’. Each month the CMA will feature a different species of bird or bat, local to the Goulburn Broken catchment.
Wooden stakes in Hughes Creek are helping maintain the population of endangered Macquarie perch

High stakes for native fish in Hughes Creek

Tuesday 19 December 2023
Hughes Creek near Avenel is home to one of just a handful of remaining endangered Macquarie perch fish populations in Victoria, so finding ways to maintain their numbers is a high stakes endeavour.

Mapping changes in GMID land and water use

Monday 4 December 2023
Land and water use in the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District (GMID) is continuing to change according to the latest data collected in a series of spatial mapping and irrigation surveys.
The upgraded Goulburn Broken Community Flood Intelligence portal and Goulburn Broken CMA Floodplain Manager, Guy Tierney.

Flood of information to help residents prepare

Friday 1 December 2023
A site that provides residents with information about where water may spread to in a flood has been upgraded.
Squirrel Glider. Moonlit Sanctuary, Victoria. Photograph: D Paul, Museums Victoria.

Squirrel Glider’s night life in the treetops

Friday 1 December 2023
The Squirrel Glider is the Catchment Critter of the Month as part of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s Our Catchments Our Communities Taking Care of Country project, funded by the Victorian Government.

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The Goulburn Broken CMA acknowledges and respects First Nations people and the deep connection they have with their land and waters.


We acknowledge the Yorta Yorta and Taungurung people and their ancestors/forbears as Traditional Owners of the land and waters in the Goulburn Broken Catchment (and beyond). We value our ongoing partnerships with Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation and Taungurung Land and Waters Council for the health of Country and its people.


We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge and recognise the primacy of Traditional Owners obligations, rights and responsibilities to use and care for their traditional lands and waters.

Shepparton
168 Welsford Street, PO Box 1752, Shepparton VIC 3630
T (03) 5822 7700
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Benalla
89 Sydney Road, PO Box 124, Benalla VIC 3672
T (03) 5822 7700

Yea
Shop 5/10 High Street, Yea VIC 3717
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