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Don’t blame the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It’s climate and economic change driving farmers out

January 30, 2020 Sarah Ann Wheeler (University of Adelaide)

For the thousand or so farmers in Canberra in the past week venting their anger at the federal government, it’s the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to blame for destroying their livelihoods and forcing them off the land. We can’t […]

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Australia’s ‘watergate’: here’s what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks

May 10, 2019 Lin Crase (University of South Australia)

The federal government committed to reducing water extraction from the Murray-Darling Basin. Shutterstock In 2017, the then agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, signed off on an A$80 million purchase of a water entitlement from a company called Eastern Australia […]

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Calls mount for royal commission into controversial Murray-Darling water buybacks

May 10, 2019 Katharine Murphy and Anne Davies (The Guardian)

Pressure continues to mount on the Morrison government over controversial water buybacks in 2017, with calls for both a royal commission and an immediate explanation about why officials dealt with a company domiciled in a tax haven. Labor […]

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