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Mick Keogh, CEO, Australian Farm Institue talks at the Global Food Forum at Sydney's Westin Hotel sponsored by The Australian Newspaper. Picture: Adam Taylor

ACCC warns water charges to surge

Australia’s competition watchdog warns federal buybacks will force up Murray Darling Basin irrigators’ water bills.

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CANBERRA, Australia, NewsWire Photos. June 6, 2024: Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor announces $300m Basin support package

The Albanese Government has committed $300m in support for Murray Darling Basin communities to offset water recovery impacts, but whether the amount is adequate or not remains a concern.

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It took Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek's water bureaucrats four months before finally admitting this bleak image in their $12 million Murray Darling Basin advertising campaign was a fake.

‘Exaggerated’: Gov admits it used fake images in water campaign

It took Tanya Plibersek’s water bureaucrats four months before finally admitting a bleak image in their $12 million Murray Darling Basin advertising campaign was a fake.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 29, 2023: Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

$12m Basin advertising splurge

Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek will have spent all $12m of her Murray-Darling Rivers’ advertising campaign by June 30.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. DECEMBER 7, 2023: Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Feds snap up $55.5 million worth of irrigators’ water

The Albanese government has splashed out millions to buy 33 parcels of irrigators’ water entitlements, through its first tender. See who sold and how much.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 27, 2023: Senator David Pocock holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

ACT Basin Plan failure

The ACT has failed to deliver a drop towards the Murray Darling Basin Plan, but has cut a $50m deal with the federal government to take water off Snowy Hydro.

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SA winegrowers want to sell their water

Why SA wine irrigators want to offload their water

Almost one in four irrigators in Australia’s largest wine-grape growing region want to sell their water, amid a red grape glut.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 29, 2023: Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Senate passes Restoring Our Rivers bill

The Senate has passed the Albanese Government’s Restoring Our Rivers Bill, clearing the way for a federal buyout of up to 700GL out of irrigation communities.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 27, 2023: The Albanese government has struck a deal with the Greens that could see more than 700 gigalitres of water used for farming each year allocated to the environment through Commonwealth buybacks across the Murray-Darling Basin. Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek and Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor, Greens basin deal savaged

Irrigation communities will be watching closely this week as the federal government attempts to ram its changes to the Murray Darling Basin Plan through parliament.

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Murray Darling Basin. Worst drought in 100 years. Junction of the Murray River (L) and Goulburn River near Echuca.

Victoria’s largest water owners revealed

The largest water entitlement holders in northern Victoria have been named, including a Canadian giant who owns a mammoth $600m portfolio.

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Country schools face enrolment slide

Timber and irrigation towns have seen their school numbers slashed after falling victim to inner city voters’ demands. See the changes in enrolment numbers at every country school in Australia.

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07 / South Australian Riverlands and lower Murray flooding 2022/2023. The second largest river flooding event in the past century has seen the Murray River swell to levels not seen since 1956 when the largest flooding event in recorded history hit the region. According to Mypologa beef cattle farmer and historian Jenni Llewellyn, the 2023 flooding event is only comparable to the 1931 event but had eclipsed the 1974 flood level. The South Australian government imposed the stricktest laws in living memory, stopping any recreational or non-essential river activity on the swollen sytem in the middle of summer school holiday when South Australia's section of the Murray would normally be teeming with holiday makers. Image shows aerial view of the township of Mannum. The township to the right is cut off from the eastern side of the river which is normally accessed by ferry or from the east. On the eastern side of the Murray sit stranded a row of shacks and the Mannum marina. Floodwaters broke the levies and inundate the floodplain ( left of frame ) which normally supports livestock. Photograph by Dean Sewell/Oculi

Water buyout impacts ‘over-inflated’

The impact of water buyouts on communities is “over-inflated” and not supported by “high-quality evidence”, a Senate committee has said. See the details.

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Commission backs water buyouts

The federal Productivity Commission has said irrigator water buyouts are one of most “cost-effective” methods of recovering environmental water.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - AUGUST 17, 2023. Federal Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek speaks at the 49th ALP National Conference 2023 in Brisbane. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Victoria rejects Basin deal

Victoria has refused to sign up to an Albanese government deal that would allow water buyouts towards 450 gigalitres for environment.

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