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End the man-made drought. Rip up the Murray Darling Basin Plan

6 November 2019

3:12 PM

6 November 2019

3:12 PM

The failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is an example of what happens when decisions are taken out of the hands of locals and given to distant Canberra bureaucrats.

By taking an extra 2000GL of water out of the agricultural sector every year since 2012 – the largest re-direction of water to the environment for any large river basin in the world – the Murray Darling Basin Plan has created nothing less than a man-made drought.

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