The National Water Commission today released its third biennial assessment of the National Water Initiative and water reform in Australia. The report highlighted the slow pace of water reform, stating: “Nationally there has been disappointingly slow progress in the explicit identification of over allocated and overused systems and in restoring those systems…
Today, the parliamentary inquiry into Labor’s carbon tax legislation met for the first time. The desire of the Labor-Green-Independent alliance to avoid scrutiny and exert total control over this process was evident. Using their majority, they scrapped parliamentary convention for a Government-nominated Chair to be offset by an Opposition-nominated Deputy Chair. …
BARNABY JOYCE: The purpose of this is that I think we have had enough of this ridiculous process where we are relying on information from the ‘South Tumut Advocate‘ to determine where the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is going. We seem to have this continual leak of information into certain regional newspapers, and God bless them…