Inland Rivers Network

By Rod Campbell 10 January 2019  “A million native fish have been killed in the Murray Darling Basin. Drought is the catalyst, but the mismanagement of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is the cause.” So long fish, and thanks for nothing…

EDO NSW, on behalf of its client the Inland Rivers Network, has commenced civil enforcement proceedings in the NSW Land and Environment Court in relation to allegations of unlawful water pumping by a large-scale irrigator on the Barwon-Darling River. This…

Critics of the handling of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan say the final submission to the South Australian Royal Commission vindicates their concerns of corrupted implementation. A significant element of the evidence before the royal commission has been the lack of…

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…