Quiggin on the Murray-Darling parliamentary committee report
Less buybacks, more engineering works – that’s what the forward to the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan recommends, in a nutshell. The Australian Conservation Foundation is unimpressed to say the least. John Quiggin [...]
Will the fertile crescent disappear this century?
Probably, according to a new study reported in the New Scientist. Possibly not according to two Israeli hydrologists in commentary on the study: In conclusion, owing to the large differences between the simulated and the observed meteorological and hydrological values, [...]
SA to challenge Victoria's water trading rules in High Court
In a move that will undoubtedly go down well with their constituents, the South Australian government is going to sue the “upstream states” in the High Court to force trade in Murray-Darling Basin water to be de-restricted. Mike Rann’s statement [...]
Scrutiny in the Senate: water, markets and censorship
I sometimes think that if it weren’t for the Senate Estimates Committees we would hardly know anything about our government at all in this country that didn’t come from a press release or a well-timed leak, given that Question Time [...]
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