The New South Wales floodwaters saga highlights the need for genuine national management of the Murray Darling Basin and should be a learning experience, Coalition Murray Darling spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Senator Birmingham welcomed an in-principle agreement from the New South Wales Government to release ‘reasonable’ flows downstream but said the situation…
Acting Prime Minister Gillard and Premiers Rann and Keneally must give Murray Darling Basin officials in-principle approval to release emergency floodwater for downstream communities today, according to Coalition Murray Darling spokesman Simon Birmingham. The Basin Officials Committee will meet tomorrow to discuss the floodwaters about to flow into the Menindee Lakes. This committee,…
(Spence Denny: It’s fair to say that the relationship between South Australia and New South Wales is strained at the moment … it’s all to do with water … with the significant flood in New South Wales falling into the Murray Darling Basin area and making its way south but just how much of…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should convene an urgent meeting of Murray-Darling Basin State Premiers to negotiate truly national management of the system, Coalition Murray Darling spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. The Rudd Government’s failure to achieve national management of Basin waters has been highlighted by New South Wales having total say on how…
(Joe O’Brien: Opposition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham says hundreds of billions of litres of water flowing from the Darling River into the Menindee Lakes in New South Wales will be wasted because of delays in processing long overdue infrastructure works. For more, Mr Birmingham joins us now from Adelaide. Simon Birmingham, good…
Heavy rains and flooding in the northern catchments of the Murray Darling Basin will fail to deliver hoped for flows into the River Murray thanks to the Rudd Government’s failure to deliver on key infrastructure promises, Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said today Labor’s 2007 election policy promised that a Rudd Government would “accelerate…
Hundreds of billions of litres of water flowing from the Darling River into Menindee Lakes in New South Wales will be wasted thanks to delays in progressing long overdue federal infrastructure works, Coalition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. Labor’s 2007 election policy promised that a Rudd Government would “accelerate investment…
The Rudd Government’s failure to achieve national management of the Murray Darling Basin has reduced South Australian Premier Mike Rann’s influence to that of letter writing, Coalition Murray Darling Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today. South Australian Water Security Minister Karlene Maywald this morning said Premier Rann is writing to the Prime Minister…
(Mike Smithson: Simon, will the Premier’s letter to Kevin Rudd have any impact? Will it make a splash?) Good morning Mike and listeners. It’s very disappointing that the Premier finds himself so weak and hopeless in this debate that he has to now resort simply to firing off the occasional letter. The problems we’re…