The federal government has introduced legislation into Parliament for its revised Murray Darling Basin plan. But the plan is already getting pushback from both the Coalition and the Greens who say much more needs to be done.
A bill to amend the management plan for the Murray Darling Basin is now before the Parliament, introduced by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
"More recently we have seen a very different picture. More than 80 percent of the water that has been delivered towards the plan has been done when Labor is in government, only 16 percent under those opposite. And in fact, when I became the Water Minister, just 2 gigalitres of the 450 gigalitres of additional environmental water had been delivered.""This plan delivers more time, more money, more options and more accountability.
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young from South Australia says there's already been a decade of broken promises when it comes to managing the water in the Basin. Andrew Leahy from the Victorian Farmers Federation says it's destroyed over a hundred years of cooperative management of the Murray River, and left farming communities in Victoria’s north on edge.
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