Irrigators lose right to vote
Irrigators in Australia’s most productive food bowl have been stripped of the right to elect their own representatives to customer committees.
Water
SA barrages reaching end of life
South Australia’s lower lakes barrages are reaching the end of their lifespan, but the state government is not developing a strategy to replace them.
$12m Basin advertising splurge
Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek will have spent all $12m of her Murray-Darling Rivers’ advertising campaign by June 30.
Rob Sitch linked to water speculator
Filmmaker Rob Sitch has been linked to a Murray Darling Basin water market speculator, which has struck a multimillion-dollar deal selling irrigation entitlements to the Federal Government.
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Hume Dam releases increase twice with big rain coming
The Murray River set to reach major flood level at Albury next week. See how much rain is forecast above Hume Dam.
$31.8m for water market reform
Australia’s competition watchdog will spend $12m regulating brokers trading $1.8 billion in Murray Darling Basin water each year.
The federal government may target NSW to buy water for the environment, but Victorian and NSW irrigators say everyone will suffer.
Floodwater brings bacteria cocktail
Floodwater travelling through the Murray-Darling Basin is bringing with it a cocktail of potential health risks and slowing down water treatment.
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.
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