MATTHEW ABRAHAM: … twitter.com/kevcorduroy where the news has flashed up while we were broadcasting that interview that the Murray-Darling Basin Authority… this is from ABC News, their Twitter feed… the Murray-Darling Basin Authority head, Mike Taylor, has resigned, and we’ve heard that … information from our newsroom as well. DAVID BEVAN: This is…
LEON BYNER: Just taking you back a little bit. We established when I say ‘we’, the Government under the suggestion of everybody who thought that we need this independent group of people that would decide the fate of water and how it ought to be used, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, they went…
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Mike Taylor says in a statement that a sustainable plan for the Murray-Darling Basin will need far more than a decision on how much water should be transferred from human uses to the environment. He says it requires the Commonwealth and states to work together with the communities, industry and environmental groups…
KIERAN GILBERT: More now on the resignation of the Chair of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. Senator Simon Birmingham is the spokesperson for the Murray-Darling for the Opposition. I spoke to him a little earlier. Senator Simon Birmingham, thank you very much for your time. We’ve known for some time that there have been differences of…
MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Simon Birmingham is a Liberal Senator for South Australia, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment. Good morning, do you concede that moving to renewable energy is the way of the future and that South Australia is setting the pace here? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Look, we obviously need to do all we can…