Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Former Victorian deputy premier John Thwaites discusses with Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells bipartisanship and making good public policy.

The first of three programs from the Restoring our Rivers draft framework is now underway in Murray Darling Basin states.

The Productivity Commission suggests a new government entity be established to undertake water recovery and implement some supply projects.

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water fronted senate estimates to discuss the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Federal and state governments need to put greater effort into explaining the governance of the Murray Darling Basin Plan, says the plan’s standing committee.

In 2012 Australia signed up to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a scheme designed to create a market for its water and to safeguard the environment. But the Plan has gone horribly wrong.

Australia’s national water policy has reached its use-by date and will fail to overcome the looming challenges of increased population and community demands, and the effects of climate change.

The federal government will create a new statutory authority to increase water compliance in the Murray-Darling Basin and intends to axe the controversial water buyback scheme.

China says it made its own calculations on the extent to which Australia subsidised barley after Australian authorities failed to give it all the information it needed in the form it requested.

Thirty years since Australia’s water reform project began, it’s clear our efforts have largely failed. Drought-stricken rural towns have literally run out of water. We must find another way. So let’s start the conversation.

A major independent review has confirmed freshwater flows are vital to maintaining the health of the Murray River’s lower lakes, striking a blow to demands by New South Wales that seawater flow in.

Shutterstock   The rains have finally arrived in the Northern Murray Darling Basin. Hopefully, this drought-easing water will flow all the way down to the parched communities and degraded habitats of the lower Darling. How much water goes downstream, however, does not just depend on how much it has rained. It also greatly depends on […]