Apr 17, 2012
Premier Weatherill has backtracked on his position to return a minimum of 4000 gigalitres to the Murray River, with its submission to the Murray Darling Basin Authority asking for modelling of lower flow scenarios.
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Apr 10, 2012
River communities and food producers continue to be ignored in the Basin Plan debate in South Australia.
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Mar 14, 2012
With the community of Renmark at risk from a major flood, Water Minister Paul Caica is playing a blame game and failing to get on with the urgent job of remediating protective levee banks.
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Mar 14, 2012
Premier Weatherill made an insulting and inadequate excuse in Question Time yesterday for not joining more than 1200 South Australians who attended last week’s vital Murray Darling Basin Authority consultation meeting in Renmark.
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Mar 09, 2012
Labor has no choice but to heed the united message of the more than 1,000 people who attended the Murray Darling Basin Authority meeting in Renmark today.
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Mar 01, 2012
Premier Weatherill’s failure to condemn the Federal Government’s decision to break the moratorium on water buybacks in the southern Murray-Darling Basin is a major blow to South Australian river communities and irrigators.
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Feb 13, 2012
Gifting more water from the Murray-Darling Basin to New South Wales irrigators is a slap in the face to South Australia and demonstrates the need for fair and equitable water reform, Member for Chaffey Tim Whetstone said today.
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