Carly Marriott

Carly Marriott appears in Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour) as the farmer perspective on Australia’s water market. Her family farms sheep and crops in New South Wales, using irrigation connected to the Murray River.

The episode uses Marriott’s story to show the distributional pain behind Water Market Design. She says water prices rose sharply in 2019, and her family helped organize a convoy to Canberra to protest the market’s effects on farmers.

Connections

• Australia, New South Wales, Murray River, and Murray-Darling Basin - geographic setting.
• Water Rights Trading and Market Speculation - market mechanisms affecting her family.
• Neil Hughes - analyst perspective contrasted with farmer backlash.