By Peri Strathearn.
Courtesy of https://www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au/
A body that could take the politics out of the Coorong is inching closer to reality.
Four state MPs have been appointed to investigate forming a Coorong Environmental Trust, a body which would advise governments about how best to use funding and environmental water to help the waterway.
Members of the public have until next Friday, September 6, to make submissions to the parliamentary inquiry, to be chaired by Greens MP Tammy Franks and include Liberal MP Terry Stephens, Labor's Irene Pnevmatikos and SA Best's Connie Bonaros.
Ms Franks said the legislation she had proposed would put the community at the heart of managing the Coorong and Lower Lakes.
"This trust, I hope, will empower the local and scientific communities to take and manage the Lower Lakes and Coorong in the way that they know and can demonstrate is best ... for the benefit of the local community and the environment," she said in Parliament on July 31.
"I look forward to finally seeing the community voices heard clearly and strongly."