The following are news items from the Coastal Waterways and Wetlands Alliance
CWWA Submission to the Western Region Sustainable Water Strategy
The Coastal Waterways and Wetlands Alliance has lodged our submission on the Victorian Government’s scoping paper for the new Western Region Sustainable Water Strategy. The submission complements and endorses the submission made by the Concerned Waterways Alliance,...
Coastal Waterways and Wetlands Alliance submission on the draft Third Victorian Waterway Management Strategy
The Coastal Waterways and Wetlands Alliance has lodged its submission on the draft Third Victorian Waterway Management Strategy, Sustaining Living Waterways. The submission focuses on Victoria’s coastal, estuarine and Ramsar-listed wetlands, including the Gippsland...
The Latrobe River & Gippsland Lakes — One Living System
This Google Earth presentation by the Concerned Waterways Alliance examines the Latrobe River and the Gippsland Lakes as a single, connected ecological system, shaped by decisions made across the entire catchment from alpine headwaters to the coastal entrance. The...
Deeply troubling announcement of the planned disbanding of the Marine Coastal Council
Over three decades Victoria built a model of independent coastal oversight. The Coastal Management Act 1995 created the Victorian Coastal Council and Regional Coastal Boards, backed by five-yearly Coastal Strategies and local Coastal Action Plans. Those structures...
New SMCE Report Underscores the Critical Link Between Healthy Catchments and Healthy Coasts
On 20 November 2025, the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability released the State of the Marine and Coastal Environment (SMCE) Scientific Assessments 2024—a major update on the condition of Victoria’s coastal and marine ecosystems. For those of us in the...