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The NFF does not support this Bill in its current form. It should be withdrawn. We do not support buybacks due the already evident impacts on regions and communities. While the complexity of the Bill is still being digested, there are significant concerns with the way the Bill recasts the Murray Darling Basin legislative framework.
Read the full submission here.
At this stage of implementation, the central issue for the Review is no longer whether additional volumes of water can be recovered through voluntary water purchase, but whether further recovery is justified given the...
Significant challenges continue to undermine town water security, particularly in regional and remote areas of the Murray-Darling Basin. In these regions, regulatory and funding constraints have repeatedly impeded...
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