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When The Marshes Flood

by Nicholas Allbrook

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Raising funds to help protect the Fitzroy River (Martuwarra) and the Kimberley region of north Western Australia.
I grew up in the town of Derby in the Kimberley and still count it as one of my true homes.

This song is about the marshes there, childhood and the memories that stick out and warp with time, taking on new weight and new dimensions.

All money will go to Environs Kimberley, a community based NGO helping to protect the water and lands of the Kimberley.

I hope, if enough of you support this cause, you might be able to visit this place one day. As the world gets more crowded and more fucked up, it remains vast and untouched and sparsely populated. It feels so big, physically and cosmically.

It is sad beyond words that such a beautiful and culturally significant part of the world is under constant threat from government and industry, but these incursions must be parried away constantly by tireless indigenous leaders and environmental groups and all the good people who do this work. The KLC, Martuwarra Council, The Kimberley – Like Nowhere Else, The Wilderness Society, Australian Marine Conservation Society and more.

- The Kimberley Coastline is one of the most pristine in the world (along with the Arctic and Antarctica). I've spent many joyous days on 80 mile beach, but over the years oil and gas companies have steadily crept closer. Over the past 30 years commercial gillnet fishing for Threadfin Salmon and Barramundi has been occurring.
- In 2011 the Fitzroy River system was placed on the Australia’s National Heritage List for its outstanding cultural and natural values. It is the last remaining home of the fresh water sawfish, Bial-Bial. The river is under constant and dire threat from land clearing, the overuse of water, pollution, salinity and erosion.
- Fracking; Buru Energy and Theia Energy as well as Texan frackers Black Mountain Oil and Gas, are now rapidly mobilising in the region to establish the industry before the community can fight back. If the Canning Basin gas project goes ahead it is estimated to release 13.5 billion tonnes of co2. This would be, obviously, completely stuffed.

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Engineered by Thomas Dolas
drums by Joe McMurray
Mixed and Mastered by Stu McKenzie
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