Water buybacks ‘will hit everyone’s hip pocket’

WATER buybacks are going to hurt shoppers at the checkout, a Mildura forum has been told. More than 60 irrigators attended a meeting in Mildura on Tuesday to discuss proposed amendments to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Members of the Coalition’s agriculture backbench committee joined Member for Mallee Anne Webster and Opposition water spokesperson Perin Davey […]

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