Shari Boomer

National President, The Murray Darling Association (MDA)

Shari Blumer is a second-term Griffith City Councillor and the current President of the Murray Darling Association, the peak body for local government within the Murray-Darling Basin.

Shari’s focus is on community participation in policy decision-making, better coordination between tiers of government, and holistic management of water within the Basin. In particular, Shari advocates for a greater role for local government in water policy implementation, and the need to embed socio-economic considerations and integrated catchment management principles into water policy formation. Shari has worked for the ACT government (in health) and for Commonwealth government (in Veterans Affairs) as well as for the Murray Darling Basin Authority (in water program delivery).

She was raised in Griffith, New South Wales, where she currently works as the Business Manager for Cater & Blumer Solicitors, a firm established in 1923 by her great grandfather Paul Blumer – himself an early water advocate in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Shari has first-hand experience of how productive and diverse planned irrigation communities can be, and the need to properly forecast, plan and build for a sustainable future for all water users in the Basin.