Inland Rivers Network

The Inland Rivers Network (“IRN”) is a coalition of environment groups and individuals that has been advocating for healthy rivers, wetlands and groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin since 1991. Read More

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Inland Fish Finally get passage funding

by HRDSeptember 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Media Release9th September 2021 Inland Rivers Network is pleased to see that the final IPART determination released today has allocated funding to build long promised fishways in inland rivers. Since 2009 WaterNSW have had a legal obligation to build eleven…

Media Release: Stronger control of floodplain harvesting needed

by HRDAugust 16, 2021

MEDIA RELEASEStronger control of floodplain harvesting neededFriday 13 August 2021 Inland Rivers Network has told the NSW Parliamentary Select Inquiry into floodplain harvesting that current NSW Government policy will ensure the continued destruction of the river systems. Barney Stevens from…

Morrison Government Failing the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

by HRDMay 26, 2021May 26, 2021

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 27 May 2021 The Morrison Government is failing the Basin Plan by shifting money for the environment to the irrigation industry. A report released today by The Australia Institute has exposed that billions of dollars earmarked for…

Media Release – Namoi Water Strategy an opportunity too good to miss

by HRDMay 18, 2021

The NSW Governments’ draft Namoi Regional Water Strategy includes a lot of potentially useful andsensible options for water security in the Namoi catchment as we face a drying, warming future.Inland Rivers Network is concerned that by presenting the controversial Dungowan…

NSW water plan withdrawals highlight transparency woes

by HRDApril 21, 2021

Stock Journal, 21 April 2021, Jamieson Murphy MOST, if not all, of NSW’s 20 water resource plans may have to be withdrawn and resubmitted, and community groups are pointing to the processes as an example of the often cited lack…

Communities are asking – Show Us the Business Cases!

by HRDMarch 21, 2021

Four dam projects are speeding through the approvals process in Western NSW: Raising of Wyangala Dam Wall Mole River Dam Macquarie River re-regulating storage project at Gin Gin Dungowan Creek Dam. Taxpayers of NSW need to know how public funds…

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