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Firm tests waters over Cubbie flow deal

THE company favoured to buy Cubbie Station has offered to sell the government 92 billion litres of water for the Murray-Darling basin, in part from the controversial Queensland cotton farm. The Land - 5:47 a.m. Monday 22nd March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

5 days, 20 hours ago

A tsunami poised - and regulated - to head down the Murray

THE Murray-Darling Basin is set to be flushed with thousands of gigalitres of water from the recent Queensland floods, the size of which means control of flows down the river ... North Queensland Register - 5:44 a.m. Wednesday 17th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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6 days, 17 hours ago

Basin authority to wade in

THE recent Queensland rains will test how the Murray-Darling Basin Authority manages water as it prepares to take control of one of the system's largest water storage sites for the ... Stock & Land - 8:29 a.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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1 week ago

ACF to buy water for Victorian wetlands

The Australian Conservation Foundation plans to buy about 200 million litres of water to help the Murray-Darling Basin’s Hattah Lakes wetlands. It is calling on public support for the purchase ... eco media - 4:42 p.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Summary of Issues for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Released

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has now released a summary of the issues raised in the 155 submissions to the sustainable diversion limits issues paper. Water Planning - 2:03 p.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Scientists Release Nine Step Proposal for Improved Water Planning

Last week, more than 30 of Australia's leading freshwater scientists and ecologists released a statement of principles for what they called "a once-in-a-life time opportunity to restore the ailing Murray-Darling ... Water Planning - 12:21 p.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Rudd Government’s water failures compromise Murray-Darling’s future

The Rudd Government continues to hide behind announcements of water buybacks to conceal the absence of an integrated national plan for the Murray-Darling Basin. Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Water, ... Liberal Party - 10:53 a.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Update on red alerts in the Murray Valley | Murray-Darling Basin Authority

Deputy Chair of the Murray Regional Algal Coordinating Committee (MRACC), Natasha Ryan, today updated the `red alert' levels current for the Murray Valley. 'A red alert currently exists in the ... Federal Government - 10 a.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Commonwealth to buy western Queensland water

The Commonwealth's announced a new $100 million water buyback tender for the Lower Balonne catchment in western Queensland, an area that takes in the giant Cubbie Station, which has long ... AM - 7:27 a.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Speech to the House, ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AMENDMENT (RECREATIONAL FISHING) BILL 2010, 15 March 2010

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AMENDMENT (RECREATIONAL FISHING FOR MAKO AND PORBEAGLE SHARKS) BILL 2010, 15 March 2010 Mr BRIGGS (Mayo) (12:10 PM) —Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity ... Jamie Briggs MP - 7:16 a.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Green group buys water for wetlands

A BIG environmental group will buy water on the open market to direct flows to wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin that have dried up because of poor irrigation. Stock & Land - 5:37 a.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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1 week, 3 days ago

Abbott: I'll save the Murray

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has promised to fix the Murray-Darling Basin or put a full federal takeover of the parched system to a referendum if the Coalition wins the next ... The Australian - 11:39 p.m. Friday 12th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Scientists set benchmark for Basin plan

A group of Australia’s leading water scientists has released an independent statement setting out what the Murray-Darling Basin Plan must achieve to secure a sustainable future for the severely degraded ... eco media - 8:43 a.m. Friday 12th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

1 week, 4 days ago

New Basin plan "must get it right", say scientists

The forthcoming Murray-Darling Basin Plan is a once-in-a-life time opportunity to restore the ailing river system, more than 30 of Australia's leading freshwater scientists say in a statement today.... University of NSW - faculty of science - 10:06 a.m. Thursday 11th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Scientists' call naive, say irrigators

The National Irrigators Council says the Federal Government's water act is putting the environment before the communities within the Murray-Darling Basin. And Council CEO Danny O'Brien says the call by ... AM - 7:18 a.m. Thursday 11th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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