The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Research Centre was opened in Goolwa, South Australia in February 2024.
[3] Rebekha Sharkie, federal government MP for the Division of Mayo, approached finance minister Mathias Cormann in 2019 about funding a research centre in the region that includes the complex ecosystems of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth.
[7][8] The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Research Centre was officially opened in early February 2024 by Rebekha Sharkie, attended by First Nations engagement officer Nathan Hartman, South Australian politicians Karen Grogan and David Basham, and others representing the Goyder Institute and local communities.
[3] An important part of the new centre is developing relationships with First Nations and other local communities, as well as industries, to gain input and new ideas of how to improve management of the area,[8] in particular the Ngarrindjeri and Boandik peoples.
This project was focused on locating, defining, and quantifying groundwater resources in areas of South Australia earmarked as priority mineral prospecting zones, including the Musgrave Province, the north east and north west Gawler Craton, parts of the Frome Embayment, and the northern Eyre Peninsula.