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Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek speaks to members of the community at Redfern Park in Sydney, Sunday, December 9, 2018. This year marks 26 years since Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of Australia delivered the historic Redfern Speech. (AAP Image/Paul Braven) NO ARCHIVING

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Wrong river: Plibersek’s Murray Darling Basin mistakes

The Albanese Government has used images of rivers in tropical Queensland and coastal NSW to promote its Murray Darling Basin plan efforts.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 19, 2024: Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Plibersek backs down

Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has abandoned withholding funding to strongarm Victoria into backing buying 450GL of irrigator’s water.

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Diminishing water levels on the Darling River below weir 32 near Menindee, Wednesday, February 13, 2019. The Darling River and the Menindee Lakes are under pressure due to low water flows as a result of the continuing drought affecting more than 98% of New South Wales. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Darling River inflows cut

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has diverted water destined for the Darling River onto a man-made floodplain.

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A snapshot from the Albanese Government's Save the Murray Darling Basin Rivers television campaign advertisement, which warns "rivers may run dry if we don't act".

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.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire 15/05/23. Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announces strategies to prepare Queensland for future natural disasters.Picture: Glenn Campbell

Plibersek to extend Murray Darling Basin Plan deadline

The deadline to deliver the Murray Darling Basin Plan will be extended, but a new date has not been set.

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Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek in Hobart in relation to the spotted handfish. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones

Murray Darling: Calls to scrap ‘lazy’ buybacks

Farming leaders are urging the government to rethink its buyback strategy, amid a push for an extension to the basin plan deadline.

National Irrigators Council chairman Jeremy Morton discusses potential water buybacks.

Podcast: Where to for the Murray Darling Basin Plan?

On The Australian Ag Podcast, National Irrigators Council chairman Jeremy Morton discusses potential water buybacks, the outlook for the upcoming irrigation season and exploding carp populations.

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Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek in Hobart in relation to the spotted handfish. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones

What could happen if the Basin Plan deadline is extended?

Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek is weighing up an extension to the June 2024 Basin Plan deadline, risking Greens’ demands for a 450GL buyout.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos - APRIL 06, 2023: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pictured with the Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek (L), at Wild Life Sydney Zoo in Darling Harbour. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

Flood of ‘ideological’ water buyouts loom

Canberra is poised to launch a tidal wave of irrigation community water buyouts at the urging of environment groups.

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Bowenville cotton farmer Kim Bremmer inspecting irrigation pumps on his Queensland property 26 Feb 2001. farm qld water

Irrigator offer prices locked in until 2024

The government has demanded irrigators make “binding and irrevocable” offers to sell water to the federal government at prices that are locked in for 12 months.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 16:Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Murray Darling Basin Plan failure

Basin states have delivered 2107 gigalitres to boost the Murray Darling Basin’s flows, but the ACT is yet to deliver a drop.

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