Limitations of Basin Plan shown by flood

While the Murray-Darling Basin Authority chief executive Andrew McConville urges us not to “lose sight of the bigger picture”, perhaps it is the MDBA that has done exactly that. Perhaps the report from Peter Hunt ‘Basin Plan mimics flood’ hit a nerve that neither the MDBA or our federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek want to […]

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