Australian Riverprize
The Australian Riverprize is valued at A$200,000 and consists of A$150,000 in cash prizes and a A$50,000 grant for the winner to establish a twinning project within Australia.
The Australian Riverprize is funded by the the Australian Government's Water for the Future initiative, through the Water Smart Australia program. The Australian Government provided $1 million to fund the Australian Riverprize over a five-year period. The RiverFoundation would like to thank the Australian Government for their commitment to healthy rivers.
2012 Winner Announced
2012 AUSTRALIAN RIVERPRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED | Read Media Release
The 2012 Australian Riverprize winner was announced on Tuesday 9 October at the Riverprize Gala Dinner in Melbourne.
The 2012 Australian Riverprize winner is the Condamine River of Queensland! Congratulations to the Condamine Alliance.
The other finalists in the 2012 Riverprize were the Georges River of NSW, and the Swan & Canning Rivers of WA.
The International RiverFoundation would like to congratulate all finalists in 2012 and thank all those who entered.
For information on entering the 2013 round of the Australian Riverprize, please click here.
Australian Riverprize Alumni
Through our extensive network and partnerships with Riverprize winners and finalists and other river practitioners, we are able to bring together a range of practical, informative and inspiring knowledge.
We aim exchange of knowledge or world's best practice, and establish partnerships, projects to ensure the world's rivers are healthy and sustainably managed. To inform and empower is a key component to achieve our goal.
IRF’s future aspiration is to develop an integrated and dynamic online communication tool which enables best practice river system knowledge to the world.
Australian Riverprize Winners
Australian Riverprize Winners
Condamine Alliance
Sunshine Coast Rivers Initiative
The Sunshine Coast Rivers Initiative is delivered by the Sunshine Coast Rivers Community (the Community): a formidable partnership between the Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) and the local community, represented by an active network of stakeholder groups.
The Initiative is underpinned by an active and environment-conscious community that has elected its local government to become Australia’s most sustainable region – vibrant, green, diverse. Council is progressively integrating this philosophy of sustainability into its new planning scheme, policy framework and operations. Council also provides technical and financial support to other partners to sustain their work in waterway protection and restoration.
Since 2001, a strong foundation for catchment management has been established by the Community, through an enviable and continual-growing list of waterway management achievements. These have been delivered despite significant challenges, including unprecedented population growth and major administrative restructuring, and have culminated in a substantial knowledge and resource base. More recently this foundation has been formalised by the adoption of the Sunshine Coast Waterways and Coastal Management Strategy which provides the management framework for the Initiative. Concurrently, an active, region-wide communication network has evolved, involving regular in/formal interactions. Under its integrated framework, the many groups and individuals of the Community now work together towards a common vision: Our waterways - valued, healthy, enjoyed.
Derwent Estuary Program
2010 Australian Riverprize Winner
The Derwent Estuary, Tasmania, has been recognised for excellence in reducing water pollution, conserving habitats and species, monitoring river health and promoting greater use and enjoyment of the foreshore. The Derwent Estuary Program is a partnership between the Tasmanian State Government, six local councils, five major industry and commercial businesses, scientists and the community to restore the Derwent estuary. Since establishment in 1999, over $100 million has been invested in environmental projects, and the Derwent is showing signs of recovery. During the past five years, there has been an 80% reduction in organic inputs, 50% reduction in heavy metals, and 30% reduction in sewage-derived nutrients in the estuary, as well as improvements in stormwater treatment.
Oxley Creek Catchment Association
2009 Australian Riverprize Winner
www.oxleycreekcatchment.org.au
Lake MacQuarie Project Management Committee
2008 Australian Riverprize Winner
The Lake Macquarie Improvement Project became the 2008 Australian Riverprize winner for its Priority Action Plan that was developed as an integrated approach to address catchment issues and with a strong emphasis on long-term sustainability and community involvement to encourage a positive change in behaviour. A strong commitment to treating the cause of the waterway problems
originating within the catchment, rather than treating the symptoms displayed within the estuary itself, is at the core of the project. The project has shown significant improvement in lake health, reduction in algae, an increase in seagrass coverage and rehabilitation of foreshore and once endangered wetlands.
Murray Wetlands Working Group
2007 Australian Riverprize Winner
Awarded to Murray Wetlands Working Group (MWWG) in New South Wales (Australia) for its innovative wetland rehabilitation program. The project was chosen for successfully delivering 75,000 Ml of water to more than 200 wetlands covering 71,000 ha across two catchments. A distinct feature of the project is that “a number of local governments, industry organisations and community groups in the Murray and Lower Murray-Darling catchments worked together to rehabilitate wetlands on private properties which are often overlooked yet are vital to landscape management”, said Professor Paul Greenfield, AO, Chair of the Riverprize judging panel.
Torbay Catchment Group Inc
2006 Australian Riverprize Winner
www.torbay.scric.org/index.html
Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee
2005 Australian Riverprize Winner
The Bulimba Creek catchment covering over 120 km2 in Australia’s third largest city, Brisbane, has become a role model for successful rehabilitation and community participation in urban areas. Hard-working volunteers and members of Brisbane’s Bulimba Creek Catchment Association (B4C) have demonstrated an outstanding record of revegetating bushland and improving water quality in a network of Brisbane creeks.
Since winning the Australian National Riverprize, B4C has set up a school twinning program to educate students about catchment and water issues. Several schools in Brisbane, north Queensland and southern Thailand participate. The program is expanding internationally. B4C has also established the Southside Sustainability Centre to show the community, corporations and students how to live more sustainably with their environment. The centre promotes improved waste management systems and technologies for water and power efficiency. B4C conducts workshops and training programs at the centre.
Great Lakes Council
2004 Australian Riverprize Winner
www.greatlakes.nsw.gov.au
Hunter Catchment Management Trust
2003 Australian Riverprize Winner
www.hcr.cma.nsw.gov.au
Merri Creek Management Committee, Inc.
2002 Australian Riverprize Winner
www.mcmc.org.au
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
2001 Australian Riverprize Winner
www.gbcma.vic.gov.au
Australian Riverprize Finalists
Australian Riverprize Finalists
Georges River Combined Council Committee
Sunshine Coast District Council & Partners
Project Catalyst - Coca-Cola Foundation, WWF (USA & Australia), Reef Catchments NRM
Cooks River Foreshores Working Group
Derwent Estuary Program
Mallee Catchment Management Authority
Lake Illawarra Authority
Oxley Creek Catchment Association
Corangamite Catchment Management Authority
Mallee Catchment Management Authority
Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee
The Lake Macquarie Project Management Committee
Derwent Estuary Program
Tweed Shire Council
Healthy River Program / Swan River Trust
Murray Wetlands Working Group
The Lake Macquarie Project Management Committee
Maroochy Shire Council
Greening Australia
Torbay Catchment Group Inc
Cape to Cape Catchments Group
The Office of the Lake Macquarie & Catchment Coordinator
Wowan Dululu Landcare Group
Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee
Environs Kimberley
Paroo River Association
Tweed Shire Council
Great Lakes Council
City of Ballarat
Douglas Shire River Improvement Trust
Hunter Catchment Management Trust
Cardwell Shire River Improvement Trust
Great Lakes Council
Tweed Shire Council
Merri Creek Management Committee, Inc.
Hunter Catchment Management Trust
Murray Wetlands Working Group
Derwent Estuary Program
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
Merri Creek Management Committee Inc.
Blackwood Basin Group
Tweed Shire Council
Judging Panel
The International RiverFoundation sincerely thanks our past and present judges for contributing their time and expertise!
Ms Leith Boully - Judging Panel Chair
Ms Leith Boully - Judging Panel Chair
Leith holds qualifications in rural science and business studies and has 20 years experience at local, state and national levels in natural resource management (particularly water). She is Director of the Boully Pastoral Company, is Chairperson of Healthy Waterways and the Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation, Deputy Chair of the Cotton Research and Development Corporation and is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Natural and Rural Systems Management at the University of Queensland. She was member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists from 2002 – 2009 and served for two terms as Chairperson of the Community Advisory Committee to the Murray–Darling Basin Ministerial Council.
Dr Arlene Harriss-Buchan
Dr Arlene Harriss-Buchan
Arlene is the Healthy Rivers Campaign Coordinator with the Australian Conservation Foundation. She leads ACF's work on the Water for the Future program, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, the National Water Initiative and all other issues related to rivers and water.
Arlene's professional background is in science (biochemistry) and law. She also sits on the Murray Darling Basin Authority's Basin Community Committee; the Commonwealth Government's Water Recovery and Environmental Use Stakeholder Reference Panel; the Snowy River Scientific Committee; and the Stakeholder Reference Group of the National Water Commission. In 2006, Arlene was awarded the Melbourne University Christine Forster Award for Excellence.
Prof Paul Greenfield
Prof Paul Greenfield
Professor Greenfield has recently retired from the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland. Previously he was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2002-07), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2001), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) (1997-00) and Executive Dean of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture. Professor Greenfield currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee overseeing the $5.2 million Moreton Bay and Brisbane River Wastewater Management Study (since 1994); the Waste Technical Working Group, Basel Convention (since 1995); and the Advisory Board of I.P. Australia (since 1999). He is a Director of several University companies and has consulted for national and international companies and government agencies in the fields of biotechnology, wastewater management, environmental management and project evaluation.
In the 2006 Australia Day Honours, Professor Greenfield was appointed as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to science and engineering, particularly through research in the areas of chemical engineering, biotechnology, wastewater and environmental management, and to the tertiary education sector. Professor Greenfield's research is recognised internationally for capacity to attract funding and significance of published output. He still supervises PhD students and he is credited with more than 180 journal publications, 120 conference publications, three patents and more than 20 invited international (keynote/plenary) addresses
Dr Siwan Lovett
Dr Siwan Lovett
Siwan is a Director of the Australian River Restoration Centre and enjoys working with people and the environment in which they live. For the past eleven years has focused her energies on understanding rivers and the people that live and work along them. She is a social scientist by training, but works with biophysical scientists to help make their science accessible and user-friendly for a range of different audiences. Siwan loves to travel, hear and tell stories, and has been able to do this through her work with Land & Water Australia and other government and non-government organisations. She is an independent consultant based in Canberra.
Mr Bradley Moggridge
Mr Bradley Moggridge
Mr Bradley Moggridge is a proud Murri from the Kamilaroi Nation (North-West NSW) and is currently employed by NSW Office of Water as the Program Manager Aboriginal Water Initiative. Previously, he was with CSIRO for three and a half years as the Indigenous Water Research Specialist. Brad has qualifications in Environmental Science (BSc) and hydrogeology (MSc).
Brad grew up in and around Sydney but moved to the ACT two years ago and currently lives at Bonner (North Canberra). He has an ambition of leading research dealing with promoting Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (culturally appropriately) and finding commonalities between Traditional Science and Western Science, as he can appreciate both.
Prior to NSW Office of Water, Brad worked with a private consultancy as a senior environmental scientist, and also has significant experience in environmental protection and regulation and cultural heritage operational policy with NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and the former NSW EPA. Brad has also spent four years working in local government as an environment officer.
Brad was appointed as a Councillor to the First Peoples' Water Engagement Council administered by the National Water Commission in 2010, which provides advice to the NWC on national Indigenous water issues. He is also a member of the Joint Steering Committee reviewing the National Water Quality Management Strategy Documents 4 and 7 (ANZECC Guidelines) as the Australian Indigenous representative.
Brad’s claim to fame is that he can be "Googled" (because of his Master thesis), has presented at the Australian Academy of Science and has played golf for Australia.
Ms Kerry Olsson
Ms Kerry Olsson
Kerry Olsson is the Acting Deputy CEO of the National Water Commission. The Commission is a statutory authority established to help drive Australia’s national water reform agenda. It provides independent, expert advice to the Australian Government and COAG on water matters and supports projects designed to help overcome impediments to reform. Before joining the Commission in 2006, Kerry was a senior advisor in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet working on water policy and the development of the National Water Initiative. Her background is in natural resource management and environmental conservation at the state and national levels.
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