Water trading: it’s time to flush out the cowboys
Australia’s competition regulator slams ‘band aid’ fixes of the past and pushes for new agency to oversee $1.8 billion water trading in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Stephen Rice
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State of disaster — and there’s worse to come
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