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
The Annual General Meeting of the Inland Rivers Network will be held as a Zoom meeting on Friday 5th November 2021, beginning at 1 pm. Business will include the election of Committee members and the presentation of annual reports. The…
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 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…
Read More Media Release: Stronger control of floodplain harvesting needed
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…
Read More Morrison Government Failing the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
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…
Read More Media Release – Namoi Water Strategy an opportunity too good to miss
Stock Journal, 21 April 2021, Jamieson Murphy MOST, if not all, of NSW’s 20 water resource plans may have to be withdrawn and resubmitted, and community groups are pointing to the processes as an example of the often cited lack…
Read More NSW water plan withdrawals highlight transparency woes
