Opinion

Opinion

Wheels have fallen off MIL strategy

Not so long ago, we had a reorganisation of the Murray Irrigation board and its relationship to the five landholder associations that represent all the landholders and the owners of the water entitlements in the Murray Irrigation area. This...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

A call to action

Everyone you speak to has a ‘simple’ solution to the water issues in our area.

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Water madness

Water madness — everybody be warned

Country News
Opinion

Phil Minns from Corop is not happy with decision makers

Your front page story (Flood, as crops die, October 1) confirms that the lunatics really are running the asylum, with the irony being that the flood waters have gone over the Edgars’ fence line.

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Ley says she is advocating for farmers

By Sussan Ley, Federal Member for Farrer and Federal Environment Minister.

Country News
Opinion

New leaders at G-MW

(By G-MW managing director Charmaine Quick)

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Broccoli is our next big thing

‘‘Greater Shepparton is a place where business is growing, and the emerging success story is horticulture.’’

Country News
Opinion

Time for action

If you are to listen to the politicians, the problems with the Barmah Choke have just occurred in the last irrigation season.

Country News
Opinion

Purpose, pricing and planning are priorities

Two months into the job as Goulburn-Murray Water managing director, I remain on a steep learning curve.

Country News
Opinion

We haven’t broken the law: Glyde

As chief executive of the Murray-Daring Basin Authority, I strongly reject some of the key criticisms contained in the final report of the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin.

Country News
Opinion

Gaps in this story

South Australia’s Royal Commissioner Bret Walker tells an interesting story, but it is one with quite a few gaps.

Country News
Opinion

Cry me a river

I cry.

Country News
Opinion

Letters to the Editor.

Two years ago I railed against the Murray-Darling Basin Authority for its poor river management which resulted in an unnecessary, catastrophic flood and a range of unacceptable environmental consequences.

Country News
Opinion

MDBA should be ashamed of its toxic plan

What an incentive article (A year of achievement, by Murray-Darling Basin Authority chair Neil Andrew) in Country News on January 1.

Country News
Opinion

Making SPC great again

I am writing to you about the article published in Country News on January 8.

Country News
Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Trade deal is useless if we can’t grow food to export

Country News
Opinion

Woes continue

I congratulate and thank the efforts of Country News staff, together with so many correspondents, who have valiantly highlighted local water issues of more immediate concern over the past year. If only we could say it has all been worthwhile.

Country News
Opinion

River flows vital

There appears to be confusion as to the cause of the environmental damage being done by unnaturally high flows along the Goulburn and Murray rivers.

Country News

Trending stories

News

SPC ropes in more jobs

SPC’s new owners have decided to convert some outsourced jobs into internal ones, creating up to 40 new positions at the fruit processor.

Geoff Adams
News

Eagle death numbers rise

Poisoning is believed to be the cause of death of more than 150 protected native birds, including a large number of wedge-tailed eagles found at Violet Town in August, with more dead birds found in new search areas including Shepparton. Authorities...

John Lewis
News

Nestlé to shut Vic factory

CHEAPER DAIRY imports have been blamed for the shock announcement of Nestlé Tongala’s closure in northern Victoria. The announcement the factory would wind down operations by late next year to mid-2021 took the town, once known as the centre for...

Dairy News
Country News

Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance calls for basin plan changes

The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a grassroots advocacy group representing the nation’s taxpayers, has called for revision of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Rodney Woods