I thought the whole purpose of the MDBC plan was to guarantee a minimum environmental flow. By these fish kills we now know it has to be more than the current flow without any change to other land management practices.
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Commission findings to show parts of Murray Darling Basin Plan breached the Water ActCommissioner dismisses recollections from former water minister Tony Burke that the sustainable level of water take was determined by environmental concerns. who’s surprised.... no one ! corrupt Sadly Mr Burke is a politician and he is compromised. Par for the course! Honesty and integrity in stewardship of this land is the only way we will survive. This is not how politicians behave. Greedy lobbyists! Follow the money trail aconvict The Murry Darling Basin plan and the Water act are both useless when Cubby and the other 4 corrupt properties owned by foreign governments get to dam it and take the water with no requirement to care for the environment. blowthedams
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What will the Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission reveal?After 12 months of hearings and investigation, South Australia's Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission will deliver its findings. Here's a look at how we got here. Interested to hear why the Commission thinks the Basin Plan breaches the Water Act. The Act is pretty clear that the plan needs to optimise economic, social and environmental outcomes in the use of the basin's water resources. When will this madness of millions & millions of white European-Christian immigration end to the Indo-Asia-Pacific? They are moving onto raping Australia like they have done of their sheit hole whites only Native Europe they escaped from. ENOUGH! Having been on an advisory board for a catchment management authority, it will reveal widespread corruption and knowing fiscal irregularities,.
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Crisis talks in Canberra after mass Murray-Darling fish deaths | Sky News AustraliaWater officials are due to meet to discuss the response to the mass fish deaths in NSW and try to stop more such deaths in the future.\n\nThe Murray-Darling Basin Authority summoned an urgent meeting of Basin officials in Canberra on Tuesday, including environmental water holders, river operators, fish scientists and water policy experts.\n\nUp to a million fish are dead in the Darling River at Menindee and more are likely to die in coming days as temperatures rise.\n\n\n\n Tony_Burke Higher taxes plus a fat carbon tax for everyone? Tony_Burke And if you don’t win are you going to hound the new government to fix the rivers? Tony_Burke money money money! laborsmagicmoneytree auspol
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Murray-Darling fish die-offs mimicking NZ | Sky News AustraliaThe mass die-off of more than a million fish in the Murray-Darling Basin is ‘very similar’ to waterways across the Tasman Sea, according to a prominent New Zealand ecologist.\n\nMassey University's doctor Mike Joy blames agricultural intensification for the deaths of fish and other freshwater organisms across New Zealand.\n\nHe says algal blooms, which lead to a lack of oxygen and inevitably suffocate river-based life, are a result of too much water being drained and too many nutrients going in. \n\nThe Australian Greens has called for a royal commission into the management of the Murray-Darling water system.\n\n\n D_LittleproudMP we should be tapping into northern Australia water that runs into the ocean and sending it south D_LittleproudMP How the hell is this an 'independent' panel when you've got one of the perpetrators on it? Federal ICAC NOW! D_LittleproudMP Bet ya it’s big industry chucking rubbish
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Conflicts, cost blowouts, time delays in Murray-Darling plan says commissionThe Murray-Darling Basin Plan is running late and could cost half a billion dollars more finds a productivity report. Of course it will , it s the LNP way MurrayDarling , completely Hopeless Managing large amount s of Money FinancialReview vanOnselenP The one and only way to fix the problem is to create a natural growth area, a minimum distance of 1 km from the banks of each side of the Murray-Darling. I often wonder if we hadn't been preoccupied with Gay marriage, politician citizenship, gender issues and so many of these 'important' issues whether something could have been done for this 'less important' issue.
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Murray-Darling plan needs reform: report - 9NewsThe Murray-Darling Basin Plan is at serious risk unless the way it is managed is reformed, including splitting the federal authority overseeing it, a major report has found. 9News I love it how the farmers are quick to blame everybody else. It's not like anybody else is water crops 😂 Until criminal charges are laid. Murray Darling at serious risk ? Needs reform ? What gave that away Sherlock ? Was the thousands off dead fish by any chance ?
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Scientists critical of Murray-Darling plan picked for fish-kill probeSome of the plan's most outspoken critics have been selected for an independent probe, called by the federal opposition, into the recent fish kills p_hannam No! Seriously no, no, I can’t even articulate what bastards this govt is. Truly astonishing p_hannam THERE GO'S ANOTHER BILLION DOLLARS TO TRY AND CONTROL NATURE BILL SHORTEN BIG MOUTH. p_hannam Not hard really. Any scientist from grade 4 up will tell you the plan was shit
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NSW Govt releases interim report into mass fish deaths | Sky News AustraliaTemperature fluctuations and a lack of water flow are to blame for the drop in river quality that led to mass fish deaths in the Darling River, according to a government report.\n\nThe NSW Department of Primary Industries found these factors brought on low levels of oxygen in the water, which likely triggered up to one million deaths.\n\nThe state Opposition says the report proves the NSW Government has its priorities wrong. \n\nImage: supplied \u002F News Corp Australia \n\n\n So it wasn’t Adani’s fault? Ok, they still need to drill down further to get to the root cause of the lack of water flow.
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Australian writer detained in China releases confronting message | Sky News AustraliaAn Australian writer being detained in China has implored his friends not to risk their own lives fighting for his freedom. \n\nNovelist Yang Hengjun wrote the note in 2011 with the request it should be published if he were ever taken into custody. \n\nHis lawyer claims he has been charged with espionage and is being held in Beijing. \n\nDefence Minister Christopher Pyne says Australia needs to let the Chinese justice system run its course. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n pwafork No, we just know that the Chinese are simply dodgy and corrupt!
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Scott Morrison hopes Indonesia shows respect with Bashir release | Sky News AustraliaScott Morrison has been in direct contact with Indonesian counterparts over the impending prison release of alleged Bali bombing mastermind Abu Bakar Bashir.\n\nThe Prime Minister says there is an expectation that Indonesia will show great respect for Australia in how they manage Bashir's prison release.\n\nThe 81-year-old Muslim cleric was convicted of terrorism charges in 2010 over links to militant training camps in Aceh province and jailed for 15 years.\n\nBut Indonesian President Joko Widodo has confirmed Bashir will be granted early release from jail on humanitarian grounds.\n\n\n\n\n PeterGleeson63 1. the two have nothing to do with each other, 2. Bashir is not in jail for the Bali bombings. He has never been charged with or found to have had anything to do with Bali, 3 we have no say over Indonesias legal system. PeterGleeson63 You lot whinged when Indonesia was 'dictating our policy' on the embassy. Practice what you preach. PeterGleeson63 Didnt Gleeso not give a .uck when Indo got upset with Jerusalem embassy? Guess what Gleeso, Indo dont give a rats about your insignificant backside
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