Inland Rivers Network

A new report looking at how the $13bn for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is being spent has found that big agribusiness is being compensated for giving up access to water while communities, graziers, small irrigators and native title holders are having to…

A funding pool of $1.5 billion is on offer for water recovery projects across the Murray Darling Basin and the Federal Water Department is starting to splash out. The Murray-Darling Basin Water Infrastructure Program is open to tenders from all…

The federal and SA governments are now being accused of working together to nobble the commission, which is examining how the Murray–Darling Basin plan was drafted and implemented. Whether any laws have been – or are being – broken is…

Mal Peters, former director of the National Farmers’ Federation, a highly regarded figure in rural politics, says authority’s ‘direction changed’ when Joyce became agriculture minister. When I started as chair, I had the impression that the MDBA was motivated by finding a…

Karen Middleton When officials were tasked with designing the national plan to manage the flows of the Murray–Darling Basin, they were supposed to use the best available science to calculate how much water would need to be diverted from irrigators’…

This line of inquiry prompts more questions: why is the federal government going to so much trouble – and risking having the High Court rule once and for all that the states can compel the Commonwealth all they like –…