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Introduction | 
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Table of Contents | 
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Regular intervention monitoring providing valuable insights into vegetation responses to environmental flows on rivers | 
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Pages 1-9 | 
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Chris Jones and Freya Thomas
 
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| 4 | 
A long-term temporal evaluation of environmental flow regimes in southern Victoria | 
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Pages 10-17 | 
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Mark Stacey
 
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| 5 | 
Tactics for stretching a waterbug based monitoring program across a continent | 
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Pages 18-24 | 
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John Gooderham, Birgita Hansen, Ingrid Garland, Michael Sharman, Deirdre Murphy, Scott Limmer and Patrick Bonney
 
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Monitoring fish responses to environmental flows across Victoria: a shift towards understanding processes, population dynamics and long-term projections | 
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Page 25 | 
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Zeb Tonkin, Frank Amtstaetter, Wayne Koster, Matt Jones, Justin O’Connor, Ivor Stuart, Kasey Stamation, Joanne Sharley, Jarod Lyon, Jacqui Brooks, Laura Caffrey and Pam Clunie
 
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Development of a state-wide map of the extent and location of high value, at-risk groundwater dependent ecosystems | 
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Pages 26-32 | 
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Yi-Ming Ma
 
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| 8 | 
Sociogeomorphic river recovery: integrating human and physical processes | 
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Pages 33-40 | 
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Simon Mould, Kirstie Fryirs and Richard Howitt
 
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| 9 | 
Rivers, amenity and art: the geomorphologist’s role in health and liveability | 
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Pages 41-45 | 
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Sandra Brizga
 
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| 10 | 
Delivering priorities for the Gippsland Lakes through partnerships | 
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Pages 46-53 | 
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Sean Phillipson
 
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| 11 | 
New ways of collaborating for improved catchment outcomes | 
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Pages 54-64 | 
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Julie Francis
 
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| 12 | 
ALRS – Key observations and lessons associated with the role out of a state wide flood recovery program | 
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Pages 65-71 | 
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Julian Martin and Jesse Webster
 
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| 13 | 
Applied Fluvial Geomorphology in the 21st Century: embracing a Waterway Asset Management approach | 
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Pages 72-76 | 
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Penny Rogers and Leigh Smith
 
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| 14 | 
Dredging up the past: what are the current implications for Victorian rivers from historic gold dredging? | 
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Pages 77-85 | 
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James Grove, Jodi Turnbull, Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, Ian Rutherfurd and Ewen Silvester
 
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| 15 | 
Rates of bank erosion under natural and regulated flows in the Upper Murray River system – Khancoban Dam to Jingellic | 
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Pages 86-93 | 
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Brett Phillips, Andrew Simon, Jennifer Hammond, Kimberly Artita and Elizabeth Pope
 
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| 16 | 
Rates of Bank Erosion under Different and Alternative-Flow Releases along the Mitta Mitta River – Developing Metrics to Limit Erosion Downstream from Dartmouth Dam | 
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Pages 94-102 | 
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Andrew Simon, Jennifer Hammond, Kimberly Artita and Sarah Commens
 
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Assessment of channel expansion and contraction using cross-section data from repeated LiDAR acquisitions in the Macquarie Marshes, NSW | 
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Pages 103-110 | 
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Neda Yousefi, Tim Ralph, Hsing-Chung Chang, Paul Hesse and William Farebrother
 
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| 18 | 
Trialling the use of controlled burning for exotic vegetation management in novel riparian ecosystems | 
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Pages 111-118 | 
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Rebecca Mabbott and Kirstie Fryirs
 
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| 19 | 
Causes and management of dieback in River Red Gum trees along Malcolm Creek, Craigieburn | 
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Pages 119-126 | 
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Craig Clifton, Simon Treadwell and Ryan van den Hove
 
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| 20 | 
Oxley Creek Transformation – An overview of waterway issues and restoration strategies | 
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Pages 127-136 | 
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Ben Pearson, Scott Chaseling, Tony Dickson and Shaun Leinster
 
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| 21 | 
Riparian fencing: can’t we just make them do it? No, and here’s why | 
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Pages 137-146 | 
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Greg Peters
 
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| 22 | 
Restoring Riparian Resilience in the Mary River catchment – an integrated catchment management approach | 
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Pages 147-157 | 
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Brad Wedlock, Tanzi Smith, Eva Ford and Sarah Grimish
 
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When to break the habit: Adapting the FLOWS method for use in the highly modified Lower Broken Creek | 
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Pages 158-165 | 
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Lisa Duncan, Simon Treadwell and Daniel Lovell
 
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| 24 | 
Lifting our gaze: improved environmental water management requires a landscape-scale approach | 
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Pages 166-173 | 
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Andrew Sharpe
 
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Maintaining drought refuge pools in the Wimmera River | 
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Pages 174-181 | 
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Amanda Shipp and Greg Fletcher
 
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Detection of long-term change in waterway health due to flow | 
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Pages 182-188 | 
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Terry Chan, Ashley Sparrow, Nick Bond, Jennifer Hale, Greg Jenkins, Liz Morris and Suzanne Witteveen
 
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Werribee River Ecohydraulics | 
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Pages 189-197 | 
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Parvin Zavarei
 
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Use of catchment carbon offsets to build climate resilience in catchments and help the water sector achieve zero net emissions | 
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Pages 198-205 | 
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Craig Clifton, Kristin Moss, Kate Brunt, Chris Pitfield and Julie Rissman
 
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Are trade-offs acceptable or just accepting defeat? | 
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Pages 206-212 | 
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Glenn Browning
 
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| 30 | 
Collaborative water management in the Ringarooma River catchment Tasmania, Australia | 
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Pages 213-222 | 
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Chris Cleary, Scott Hardie, Brigid Morrison and Andrew Aldridge
 
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| 31 | 
Imagine the Yarra: how community, legislation and land use planning is shaping the future of an iconic waterway | 
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Pages 223-231 | 
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Karen White and Hannah Pexton
 
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What happens to the stream when the coal mine closes – A cautionary tale for legislation, licencing and best practice | 
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Pages 232-239 | 
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Ian Wright, Peter Davies and Phillip Lorenzelli
 
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Bank-stabilising rock fillets increase diversity and abundance of macro invertebrate and meiofaunal communities in the Kalang estuary, NSW | 
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Pages 240-247 | 
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Sam Lewis, Sarah Mika, Ben Vincent, Darren Ryder and John Schmidt
 
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Understanding the evolution of floodplain channels by avulsion: An investigation on the floodplain of Murray River | 
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Pages 248-255 | 
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Abdullah Baky, Ian Rutherfurd and Philip Marren
 
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Channel erosion risk assessment of south east Queensland | 
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Pages 256-264 | 
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Misko Ivezich and Danielle Udy
 
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Managing erosion from vessel wash on a reach of the Murray River | 
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Pages 265-271 | 
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Hugo Bowman and Kade Small
 
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Mid-King Cooperative Avulsion Management | 
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Pages 272-277 | 
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Andrew Briggs
 
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| 38 | 
Rehabilitation of the Nimmie-Caira | 
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Pages 278-285 | 
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Ross Hardie
 
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| 39 | 
Seed germination traits of two common floodplain eucalypts: optimum germination temperatures and influence of leaf litter | 
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Pages 286-293 | 
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Ben Vincent, Rhiannon Smith, Megan Good and Peter Clarke
 
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From planting willows to pulling them out: The past, present and future of riparian management in Victoria | 
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Pages 294-304 | 
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Peter Vollebergh and Jo Slijkerman
 
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Development of the stream rehabilitation guidelines for Queensland | 
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Pages 305-308 | 
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Luke McPhail, Michael Cheetham, Andrew Markham, Julian Martin, Andrew Brooks, Geoff Vietz, Ben Pearson, Jim Tait and Tim Pietsch
 
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Is my river health intervention project working? Results and lessons learned from 10 years of riparian works monitoring in the Melbourne region | 
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Pages 309-316 | 
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Apanie Wood, James Kaye, Monica Tewman and Bridie Velik-Lord
 
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Evaluation and redirection of a long term broad scale river health monitoring program in Tasmania Australia | 
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Pages 317-324 | 
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Scott Hardie, Christopher Bobbi and Adam Uytendaal
 
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| 44 | 
Tracking platypus populations through genetic fingerprints | 
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Pages 325-335 | 
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Josh Griffiths, Anthony van Rooyen, Jean-Michel Benier, Rhys Coleman and Andrew Weeks
 
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| 45 | 
What Landholder is That? Tailoring Your Engagement Approach | 
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Pages 336-341 | 
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Lori Gould
 
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Georges River Aboriginal Riverkeeper Team: a model for successful engagement of Aboriginal communities in natural resource management of urban areas | 
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Pages 342-349 | 
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Tony Wales and Vanessa Cavanagh
 
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What’s in it for me – an evidence based approach to improve landholder adoption of riparian works | 
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Pages 350-357 | 
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Rob Richards and Peter Vollebergh
 
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When Perception and Evidence Based Practice Collide – Floodplain and Waterway Management in the aftermath of the 2016 Floods at St Marys, Tasmania | 
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Pages 358-365 | 
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Julian Skipworth
 
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Returning native fish to an urban creek in Logan | 
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Pages 366-370 | 
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Barnaby Resch and Matt Moore
 
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Using concreted stormwater channels for determining ‘worse case scenarios’ when assigning grades of relative condition to urban waterways | 
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Pages 371-379 | 
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David Reid and Carl Tippler
 
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Concrete Stormwater Channels: Urban Stream Wasteland or Supercharged Ecosystems?  | 
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Pages 380-385 | 
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Carl Tippler and David Reid
 
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Setting Appropriate Goals for Urban Stream Restoration: A Case Study from Blacktown City Council | 
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Pages 386-394 | 
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Carl Tippler, David Reid, Craig Bush, Michael Dean, Phillip Birtles and Nakia Belmer
 
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Fish Passage Considerations for Retrofit of Base Flow Weir Gauges | 
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Pages 395-405 | 
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Megan Holcomb and Matt Curtis
 
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Groundwater the known unknown in floodplain management | 
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Pages 406-413 | 
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Andrew Telfer, Alison Charles and Whendee Young
 
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Predicting opening duration of intermittently open/closed estuaries in victoria | 
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Pages 414-422 | 
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Sarah McSweeney, Justin Stout, Ian Rutherfurd and David Kennedy
 
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When one model just isn’t enough | 
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Pages 423-427 | 
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Danielle Udy
 
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| 57 | 
Which on-ground projects will give me the best environmental return? | 
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Pages 428-435 | 
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Nick Marsh, Tory Grice, Adam Northey, Mark Silburn, Melanie Shaw, Grant Fraser and Dan Rattray
 
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“Does anyone here speak water-ish?” – How the benefits of environmental flows get lost in translation | 
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Pages 436-444 | 
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Sarina Loo
 
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Flows, habitat, connectivity and cooperation: recovering native fish in northern Victoria | 
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Pages 445-452 | 
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Phil Slessar
 
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Environmental response of reconnecting billabongs along the Yarra River | 
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Pages 453-460 | 
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Sarah Heard, Simon Treadwell and Sarah Gaskill
 
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| 61 | 
Warrego Hydrology: what is, what was and what might have been | 
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Pages 461-468 | 
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Paul Frazier, Mark Southwell and Andrew Herron
 
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Toorale environmental water delivery project: A case study in loaves and fishes | 
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Pages 469-476 | 
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Ross Hardie and Amanda Shipp
 
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| 63 | 
The Presence of Illicit Compounds in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River System | 
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Pages 477-483 | 
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Jason Reynolds, Bianca Russom and Michelle Ryan
 
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Heavy metal contamination of water column from a coal mine waste water discharge resulting in mobilisation of metal contaminants to riparian vegetation. Wollangambe River, Blue Mountains Australia. | 
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Pages 484-492 | 
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Nakia Belmer and Ian Wright
 
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A web-based interface to visualize and model spatio-temporal variability of stream water quality | 
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Pages 493-501 | 
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Danlu Guo, Anna Lintern, James Webb, Dongryeol Ryu, Shuci Liu, Ulrike Bende-Michl, Paul Leahy, David Waters, Malcolm Watson, Paul Wilson and Andrew Western
 
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Data versus desktop: an assessment of the severity of cold water pollution in the Swampy Plains and Murray Rivers below Khancoban Dam | 
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Pages 502-508 | 
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Elizabeth Pope and Andrew Nolan
 
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Planning for future wastewater discharges to streams in urban-growth areas, Tasmania | 
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Pages 509-514 | 
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Bonnie Bonneville, Royce Aldred and Jo Oliver
 
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Benefits and challenges of incorporating spatially-explicit quantitative modelling and action prioritisation in Melbourne Water’s Healthy Waterways Strategy | 
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Pages 515-522 | 
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Rhys Coleman, Yung En Chee and Christopher Walsh
 
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Multi site environmental water planning in South Australia using ewater source | 
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Pages 523-530 | 
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Claire Sims, Matt Gibbs, Rebecca Turner, Tracey Steggles and Adrienne Rumbelow
 
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Using Aquatic Habitat Mapping to prioritise on-ground investment | 
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Pages 531-537 | 
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Bruce Christie, Clayton Miller, Mick Callan and Rod Price
 
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| 71 | 
Urban Streamflow Evaluation and Amelioration Method: A New Approach for Waterway Protection and Rehabilitation  | 
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Pages 538-545 | 
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Geoff Vietz, Carl Tippler and Kathy Russell
 
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| 72 | 
Prioritising Kayak Access on the Yarra River | 
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Pages 546-553 | 
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Chris Dwyer and Dan Green
 
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Innovative solutions to alluvial gully remediation: a case study from the Great Barrier Reef catchments | 
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Pages 554-566 | 
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Lynise Wearne, Damon Telfer, Delwyn Windridge and Sunny Behzadnia
 
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A comparison of methods for measuring water quality improvements from gully rehabilitation in Great Barrier Reef catchments | 
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Pages 567-574 | 
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Andrew Brooks, John Spencer, Nicholas Doriean, Tim Pietsch and Jorg Hacker
 
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Addressing gully erosion in the Great Barrier Reef catchments: priorities and progress | 
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Pages 575-582 | 
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Scott Wilkinson, Peter Hairsine and Aaron Hawdon
 
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Costs of achieving the water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef | 
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Pages 583-588 | 
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Steve Skull, Tony Weber, Jim Binney and Mark Stacey
 
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst: Managing sediment input in the upper catchment whilst preparing for avulsion at the mouth. | 
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Pages 589-596 | 
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Michael Cheetham and Julian Martin
 
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| 78 | 
Local scale interventions accelerate recovery at the tail of a bedload pulse | 
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Pages 597-606 | 
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Alex Sims and Ian Rutherfurd
 
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Looking through Goggles – The Murray River from a different perspective – A short film | 
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Page 607 | 
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Ben Berry and Robert Nugent
 
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| 80 | 
Urban streams and sediments: informing better management through recent findings | 
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Pages 608-614 | 
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Kathryn Russell, Geoff Vietz and Tim Fletcher
 
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Were load-based stormwater objectives a necessary mistake to progress water sensitive urban design? | 
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Pages 615-621 | 
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Andrew O’Neill, Glenn Browning and Tony Weber
 
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| 82 | 
Managing urban streams: change the channel or change the flow? | 
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Pages 622-629 | 
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Desmond Anim, Geoff Vietz, Tim Fletcher, Gregory Pasternack and Matthew Burns
 
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Did it work? Do the landholders value and manage it? Is it still there? Setting the standard for follow-up riparian inspections and landholder engagement | 
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Pages 630-638 | 
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Bron Gwyther, Peter Vollebergh and Jon Leevers
 
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Georges Riverkeeper – 40 years in the making | 
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Pages 639-648 | 
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Beth Salt, David Reid, Tony Wales and Lisa Smith
 
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Supporting and connecting community through restoration- Why the Rivers of Carbon model works for Landcare | 
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Pages 649-652 | 
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Mary Bonet
 
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| 86 | 
Benefits of the Mary River catchment Waterwatch Program for integrated stream management and monitoring outcomes | 
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Pages 653-663 | 
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Jess Dean
 
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| 87 | 
Derivation of site-specific water quality objectives within a highly disturbed Tasmanian catchment | 
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Pages 664-672 | 
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Marie Bigot and Ross Smith
 
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| 88 | 
Is geochemical contamination from urban development contributing to weed invasions in high conservation value wetlands | 
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Pages 673-680 | 
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Rani Carroll, Ian Wright and Jason Reynolds
 
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| 89 | 
Community triggers EPA action to address river water pollution caused by inflow of coal mine waste water | 
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Pages 681-688 | 
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Benjamin Green, Nakia Belmer, Rani Carroll, Katherine Morrison and Ian Wright
 
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A five-year investigation of water pollution in a small stream due to stream channel fracturing that was triggered by subsidence from underground coal mining | 
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Pages 689-690 | 
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Katherine Morrison, Ian Wright and Jason Reynold
 
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It’s a good news story! Tracking geomorphic recovery of rivers in eastern New South Wales as part of process-based river management | 
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Pages 691-704 | 
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Kirstie Fryirs, Gary Brierley, Fergus Hancock, Tim Cohen, Andrew Brooks, Ivars Reinfelds, Nick Cook and Allan Raine
 
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Towards identifying geomorphic rarity and vulnerability use of River Styles in high ecological value aquatic ecosystems | 
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Pages 705-712 | 
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Fergus Hancock and Kirstie Fryirs
 
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Maribyrnong river erosion control project floating boom trial | 
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Pages 713-720 | 
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Zoe Samson and Michael Bain
 
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Gully erosion control activities in the Mary River catchment | 
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Pages 721-726 | 
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Shaun Fisher, Bec Watson, Belinda Wedlock and Brad Wedlock
 
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Maintenance of WSUD Assets – “The good, The bad and The ugly”  | 
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Pages 727-738 | 
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Niloo Tara
 
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| 96 | 
The Challenges Faced in Naturalising Channelised/Urbanised Waterways Extend Far Beyond the Physical Design of a Functioning Waterway | 
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Pages 739-743 | 
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Chris Dwyer, Sarah Watkins, Aaron Broadway and Adam Hall
 
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Habitat improvement and creation for threatened dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella pusilla) along the Dandenong Creek corridor in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne | 
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Pages 744-751 | 
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Rhys Coleman, Jenny Butcher, Jonathon Mclean, Amanda Shipp and Andrew Weeks
 
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Water quality and ecological recovery of a mountain stream after 60 years of receiving sewage effluent | 
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Pages 752-761 | 
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Ian Wright, Katherine Morrison and Michelle Ryan
 
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Reflection on the achievements of River Health Incentives Program: 22 years of partnering with community to improve waterway health | 
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Pages 762-770 | 
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Lizzie Younger and Anna Zsoldos
 
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Design Your Creek Week – Community co-design to for a 1.6 km waterway naturalisation project. | 
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Pages 771-778 | 
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Alan Hoban, Amalie Wright, Ben Walker and Geoff Vietz
 
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What to do when your data doesn’t tell the whole picture..? | 
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Pages 779-782 | 
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Simon Laird
 
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Wodonga regional waterway action plan: a community led waterway action plan | 
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Pages 783-789 | 
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Tom Atkin, Julian Martin and James Kaye
 
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Ecosystem productivity of a wet-dry tropics wetland system: Establishing a baseline understanding for conservation | 
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Pages 790-797 | 
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Danelle Agnew, Kirstie Fryirs, Tim Ralph and Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
 
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The Importance of Swampy Meadows | 
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Pages 798-801 | 
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Mick Callan
 
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| 105 | 
Challenges of improving the connectivity of an abandoned Yarra River water course | 
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Pages 802-810 | 
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Ashley Roberts
 
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| 106 | 
Using redundant drainage infrastructure to protect vulnerable wetlands | 
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Pages 811-818 | 
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Steve Wickson and Elizabeth Johnston
 
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