It is with some irony that almost 10 years to the day since the signing of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, the new Labor Government has unveiled its determination to proceed with water buybacks across …
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“It is not the drought causing farmers to leave in droves, it’s governments taking 30 per cent of irrigation water under the new Murray Darling Basin water plan that is based on ‘err…
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Around 1,500 angry farmers have called for a pause to the Murray-Darling Basin Management Plan, while others have accused non-farmer water investment companies (water barons) of holding back water fro…
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“Old farms, new farms, small and large are closing every week. Regional businesses and towns are in crisis,” a Victorian farmer told me.
Thousands have attended protest meetings in Al…
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Victorian and federal government projects taking 429 gigalitres of central Victoria’s Goulburn Valley high-security water out of farm production are endangering one of Australia’s most pro…
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The Murray-Darling Basin Plan of federal Water Minister Tony Burke has been passed into law after disallowance motions failed in both houses of parliament.
After Mr Burke recently signed the Plan…
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The third draft Murray-Darling Basin plan has added to the previous draft by slashing the amount of groundwater available for agriculture.
This massive take of water from irrigation adds to conce…
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It’s time farmers protested strongly over the second draft Murray-Darling Basin plan before it destroys their communities and jeopardises the nation’s food security.
It’s time t…
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Following mass protests by farmers over the draft Murray-Darling Basin water-allocation plan, major criticisms of the plan have been made by two federal water inquiries.
The draft Basin plan was …
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Recent massive deluges and floods demonstrate that Australia has the periodic rainfall to secure the nation’s growing water needs, if there is the political will to build new dams.The floods across …
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Delaying the Murray-Darling Basin plan a year will achieve nothing unless the Commonwealth Water Act 2007 is rewritten and unless intensive consultations are held with all Basin stakeholders.Murray Ri…
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Angry farmers in Griffith, New South Wales, have burned copies of the Murray-Darling Basin draft water plan that would destroy their towns and to protest the Basin plan’s consultation and planning pro…
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The new draft plan for the Murray-Darling Basin is soon to be released. It threatens disaster for the Australia’s food-bowl, which produces 40 per cent of the nation’s food.In 1994, the National Water…
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The rorted home insulation and school-building schemes arguably kept people in jobs when the nation faced a possible economic downturn. In contrast, the Federal Government’s $3.1 billion Murray-Darlin…
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The Goulburn Valley, Victoria’s food-bowl, was one of Australia’s premier, prosperous dairying regions. But over the last five years, it’s estimated that half the dairy farms have gone.Typically, the …
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The PM can forget about helping solve the world’s food shortage, so long as his government insists on taking 3,500 gigalitres of irrigation water out of production in the Murray-Darling Basin. Patrick…
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Huge areas of Australia are still in a protracted drought, made worse by the poor management of major irrigation systems and decades of neglect of water infrastructure. Patrick J. Byrne reports.The bi…
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Permanent water-trade will weaken agriculture and regional economies, farmers argue in a long-awaited report.A long-awaited report has revealed “widespread, vehement community opposition to permanent …
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Farmers are outraged that governments are buying scarce irrigation water for environmental flows, writes Patrick J. Byrne.Farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin are outraged that governments are buying i…
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The Prime Minister’s plans for the Murray-Darling Basin would remove so much water from irrigation, it could wipe $28 billion, or 2.9 per cent, off Australia’s GDP. Australia is now facing the worst d…
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Murray-Darling Basin agriculture, which produces about 40 per cent of Australia’s food and fibre, is in major crisis, writes Patrick J. Byrne.With record low water available for agriculture, stressed …
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The Prime Minister’s recent warning on water shortages in the Murray-Darling Basin has led to some actions that should have been taken six months ago, reports Patrick J. Byrne.With only 360 gigalitres…
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