The $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin plan is "a fraud on the environment" that may be unlawful, the South Australian royal commission into the basin has heard on its first day of hearings.
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| Water short: Ibis fly over the dairy herd of Daryl Hoey near Katunga in Victoria. |
Richard Beasley, SC, the counsel assisting Commissioner Bret Walker, said the plan and its related water act had been set up "to fix a dying system that has had too much water taken from it and ... has suffered environmental degradation”.
Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “‘Fraud': SA royal commission takes aim at Murray-Darling mismanagement.”
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