Farmers in the Murray Darling Basin are sweating over the prospect of big cuts in water entitlements by as much as 37%. The details were leaked from the guide to the Murray Darling Basin plan.
Water allocation
Water authority would dampen business plans
Water management shouldn’t be a tug of war between private enterprise and government. Australia needs a national water authority to manage, regulate and allocate water, writes Bruce Haigh and Kellie Tranter.
Cubbie won’t wash away govt water woes
The government is doing too little too late with water allocation in the Murray Darling Basin. Buying the controversial Cubbie Station will not improve the water woes, writes Ben Eltham.
Cubbie Station out to con the taxpayer, says Heffernan
Senator Bill Heffernan opposes a Commonwealth purchase of Cubbie Station, the vast water cotton farm, and instead calls for it to be scaled back to a sustainable level.
Water regulation reveals our dysfunctional federal farrago
Rarely has there been such a clear example of why we need a massive program of regulatory harmonisation between the states, writes Bernard Keane.
Toorale buyout an environmental disaster in the political making
More simplistic souls think you can just buy Toorale’s 91,383 hectares, smash its dams, hand it over to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and watch all the rivers suddenly run, writes Michael Pascoe.
Farming the water market for profit, or survival
With dams drying up and the skies remaining disappointingly blue, the national water market is an economic meeting place for farmers, speculators, regulators, and even horders.
