LETTER: Nationals are to blame for a failed basin plan

Former Prime Minister John Howard started the whole process of dealing with a hugely over-allocated and degraded Murray-Darling Basin hand-in-hand with Malcolm Turnbull in 2007. They implemented the Water Act 2007 under which the Murray-Darling Basin Authority was set up (responsible for planning the basin’s water resources in the interest of the MDB as a whole), […]