A river with two ends
The Basin has a wet, regulated, populous south and a dry, episodic north — and the consultation wrote about them very unevenly. Of the 1,244 documents carrying a geographic-focus tag, attention flows 1.8:1 toward the southern connected system.
1.8 : 1
721 documents focus on the southern basin — the Murray, the lower lakes, the Coorong — against 391 for the Darling–Baaka, Menindee and the northern basin. Documents can carry several geographic tags; basin-wide tags sit outside both rollups.
Southern basin · 721Northern basin · 391
Every geographic focus
Documents per Geographic-focus tag. Teal = southern rollup, amber = northern rollup, grey = basin-wide or unclassified.
Documents by geographic-focus tag
southern rollupnorthern rollupbasin-wide / other
The north's water crises — mass fish deaths, a river that stops flowing — made national news; the consultation's paper trail still runs south. Whose river gets written about is itself a finding.