Doorstop interview, The Domain, Sydney – Basin Plan Guide consultation, Government advertising

  SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Tony Burke has become the missing man of Murray-Darling Basin reform. He’s not showing up to communities to engage in the consultation process. In stead, he’s leaving it to public servants to front angry and aggrieved people whose futures are on the line.   Equally, Tony Burke and the Labor Government now appear to…

PM Agenda, Sky News Australia – Basin reform consultation, new parliamentary inquiry

  DAVID SPEERS: As we mentioned earlier, the Government is, well, starting to react to the growing anger from farmers and local regional communities to the Guide to the first draft of the Murray-Darling Plan. Simon Crean, the Minister for Regional Australia, says he understands those concerns, particularly for those who think that the impact on…