Have your say on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

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 McConville said that the discussion paper looks at progress made so far and opens the conversation about the issues and challenges the Basin is facing as the basin community plans for the future.

“Over coming months, we’ll be out across the Basin talking with communities about the evidence and ideas raised in the Discussion Paper and listening carefully to what people think—what’s working well, what isn’t, and what might need to change,” Mr McConville said.

“At this point it is a discussion, not a set of decisions – nothing in the Review is settled, and we want to have a genuine conversation with communities, informed by their lived experience. 

Spokesman for Barwon-Darling Water Ian Cole said he was pleased that the MDBA had broadened its scope to look at ‘complementary measures’ to improve the riverine environment. […]

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