Government accused of inflating Coorong project costs
The South Australian Government has been accused of inflating the cost of a Coorong project, which could help offset buying more irrigators’ water.
Water
Farmers challenge ABARES water trade call
ABARES says the CEWH could sell up to 25 per cent of its annual allocations each year without “significant market impacts”.
Bureaucrats refuse to answer advertising campaign questions
The federal government has not provided details about where it sourced images of dead fish and trees in its Murray Darling advertising campaign.
How to fix eroding Murray-Darling Basin accountability
Cobram Estate boss Rob McGavin has offered a solution for how Murray-Darling Basin water policy should be managed. See the latest.
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Government free to strip irrigators of water
Federal water bureaucrats can now walk into irrigator water markets to snap up their entitlements for the environment.
David Littleproud on water buybacks
The threat of water buybacks will threaten Murray Darling Basin communities, the Nationals leader says. Listen now.
Flood peaks heading for Wentworth
At least 2000 gigalitres is flowing into the Darling River, leaving Wentworth locals at its junction with the Murray River eyeing river gauges.
Hunt: More dams not the answer
OPINION: Building more dams is not a solution to floods, nor drought, writes Peter Hunt.
Plibersek: Budget funds set aside for irrigator buyouts
The amount of money the Albanese government will spend on buying irrigators’ water has been hidden to get “good value for money”.
Farmer anger over water stored ahead of floods
Questions are being raised about why so much water was left in Murray Basin storages as a wet winter approached.
Basin target: Man-made flood plan
A man-made flood every five years, similar to what we are experiencing now, is “madness” says the Victorian Farmers Federation.
Melbourne Water’s river gauges fail
More than 200 river gauges across Melbourne’s catchments stopped automatically reporting this morning, but most are now back online.
Murray-Darling trade clean-up
New market reforms will force water brokers to comply with a new mandatory code of conduct.
‘Accelerate’ Murray Darling Basin buyout
Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek’s bureaucrats want her to strip away irrigation community protections, to “accelerate” water recovery.
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