Opinion

Labor needs to wake up

When is the Labor government going to wake up and bring back the cattle, brumbies and logging? If they don’t we will have a big fire, no grasses and wildlife. Also Mathoura, Moama and Echuca could go. The greenies have too much control, they won’t...

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Are we really fire ready?

Richard and Jenny Naughton, Longwood and John Nissan, Locksley

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Charmaine Quick reflects on 2019 in her latest column

By Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Charmaine Quick

Rodney Woods

Charmaine Quick reflects on 2019 in her latest column

By Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Charmaine Quick

Rodney Woods

The death of agricultural research

I must agree with Barry Croke (my fellow student at University of Melbourne) in his letter about research staff numbers being cut when he pointed to Australians being world leaders in agricultural research. In particular this applies to tropical...

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Billion dollar flush

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that 100 Gl of water will be allocated to eligible irrigators for the purposes of fodder production. Details of how this $100/Ml water can be accessed and how the resulting fodder is administered is...

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It’s time to address the cause of our water problem

The Bishop of Riverina Donald Kirk has described water as “the essence of life” and argued that the water market is infringing on the spiritual needs of people in the Murray-Darling Basin. According to an ABC report, in his opening...

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Native timber decision will destroy lives

With one stroke of his magic pen, the Premier for Melbourne, Daniel Andrews, has decimated the timber industry. With very little thought he has destroyed the lives of thousands of rural timber workers, all for the sake of some inner city green...

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It’s time to address the cause of our water problem

The Bishop of Riverina Donald Kirk has described water as “the essence of life” and argued that the water market is infringing on the spiritual needs of people in the Murray-Darling Basin. According to an ABC report, in his opening...

Rodney Woods

Split MDBA up: Ryan

Irrigators and basin communities have lost faith in the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA). The only way to restore faith is genuine change. We must do more than just shuffle the deckchairs to earn the confidence of irrigators and Basin...

Geoff Adams

Troubling glimpse of the future

Regarding your front page story “Small water relief”. Are we getting a glimpse of the future with the Federal Government issuing 100 Gl of water at a set price, with which to grow stock feed? In a situation where there is not...

Rodney Woods

Drought drives water management

This is what several people were calling for on Q&

Rodney Woods

A job well done

Through your paper could I congratulate Phillip Glyde from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Jody Swirepik, and the visionaries who set up the MDBA, on their success in achieving their goals. With severe...

Rodney Woods

Water is no longer just water

For those who watched last week’s Q&A on ABC TV, there can be no doubt that water is no longer just water. It’s not only for human use, or for caring for our environment, not for producing food and fibre — it has become...

Geoff Adams

Ill-conceived thought bubble

Victorian Shadow Water Minister Steph Ryan has called for the expansion of Buffalo Dam and a pipeline connecting to Lake Nillahcootie on the Broken River. The Nationals propose to use the Broken and Goulburn rivers to bypass the Barmah Choke and...

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Dams needed to capture rain

By Victorian Shadow Water Minister Steph Ryan Big Buffalo has been dreamt about for years but no one has ever found the political will to build it. In the past the conversation has always been about expanding irrigation and it was always quickly...

Geoff Adams

Water management disaster

Federal Water Minister David Littleproud, like his mates at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, is extremely reluctant to admit anything is wrong with their disastrous water management. In their mind...

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Nearing the end of a long pricing journey

By Charmaine Quick, Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Goulburn-Murray Water is just days away from lodging our next Pricing Submission — a project that has involved input from thousands of our customers through working groups, drop-in...

Geoff Adams

Letter to the editor: ADF comments are off the mark

When I read comment on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan from Australian Dairy Farmers president Terry Richardson my initial reaction was extreme anger, followed by disappointment. It is difficult to comprehend how the leader of a national organisation...

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