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Basin Plan is really quite simple – it’s a $13billion investment in river
health and sustainable water use. Yet it is subject to a constant barrage of
criticism from user groups and political attempts to undermine its
environmental outcomes.
In fact the Turnbull government is investing $2.5 million a
day in improved infrastructure for irrigation communities. It’s hard to think
of any industry sector, let alone an agricultural sector, that is receiving
this level of tax payer support.
Read the story by Environment Victoria’s Healthy Rivers
Campaigner, Juliet Le Feuvre - “Reality checks and the Basin Plan”.
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