NSW Irrigators Council CEO Dr Madeleine Hartley said the Basin Plan must now focus on integrated catchment solutions and community-led approaches. Photo supplied Story: Tricia Duffield The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has released its much-anticipated Basin Plan Review Discussion Paper and communities are being invited to have their say. The MDBA is seeking submissions from Basin communities as it works towards the next phase of the Basin Plan. MDBA CEO Andrew McConv

Dawn said she is very happy to be retiring after a lifetime of working a variety of jobs. Photo TWH Story: Tricia Duffield Dawn Smith would never admit it, but for many years, she has been a key figure in the battle for fairer outcomes for Aboriginal people in the NSW judicial system. Dawn may have begun her working life as a cleaner, but at 83, she ends her career as a respected pioneer, working within the Aboriginal Legal Service from its very first days more than forty yea