The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is out and on-line

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Currently, on ABC TV and on ABC News 24 the Press Conference releasing the plan is being held.
To get the low-down on the hoe-down which is the Murray-Darling Basin Plan a new website has been established.  For all things to do with the Plan, please go here.

Please be in touch with this, Networkers.  

I want to know what you reckon.

• Biggest water cuts expected in the Murrumbidge Irrigation Area and the Goulburn-Broken Rivers area
• Miss Eagle has been saying that this is the biggest structural adjustment since white settlement.  The MDBA say that this sort of organisation of a massive river basin has never been done ANYWHERE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD.  This is a world first, Australia! Imagine!
• Barnaby Joyce has spoken at a Press Conference yet could not comment on The Guide's detail. He is now speaking again just to give free kicks to Penny Wong.  I would remind Networkers that John Howard tasked former National Party Leader John Anderson with the task of sorting out the mess that has been the over-allocation of water in the Murray-Darling Basin.  Anderson spent about two years on this and couldn't sort it.  Agricultural politics is an agressive, self-interested and nasty business!  The Nats don't deserve any air time to complain.  Let them learn to be constructive, instead of destructive.  Get on with doing a proper job, Barnaby.

Further reading:

Membership of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority
Interview with John Anderson , 25 August 2003
Irrigators unhappy with groundwater program
Cubbie Station in South Queensland,  Australia's major interstate water diversion issue
The Great Water Plan by  John Quiggin
Farmers' water reform fears
Basin plan trade-off would cut 800 jobs
Basin plan presents once-in-a-lifetime opportunity