The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been a multi-billion dollar environmental disaster for our nation.
$13 billion of taxpayers' money was meant to go into saving the river. Instead, the Murray-Darling is in crisis while big corporate irrigators are lining their pockets.
The Greens are the only party that has opposed the Murray Darling Basin Plan from the outset, when it was clear that it put profit and special interests ahead of science and the environment.
The Greens instead have a plan that would:
- Establish a national royal commission
- Overhaul the Murray Darling Basin Plan, putting the environment at the centre
- Ensure that any future modelling is done in the context of climate change
- Ban corporate irrigator donations to political parties
- Ensure that any new plan delivers water buybacks to ensure proper environmental flows