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NSW still holding the Murray Darling Basin Plan back

February 14, 2023

Media Release   February 14, 2023  The Murray Darling Basin Authority has released a six-monthly report card on the progress of the Murray Darling Basin Plan, highlighting yet again that when it comes to the Basin Plan, NSW continues to have the hand brake on....

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Perrottet Government signs death warrant for inland rivers

February 03, 2023

Media Release   3 February 2023  The controversial regulation to legalise the diversion of billions of litres of water from NSW’s inland rivers with floodplain harvesting levees has been gazetted today. These are essentially the same regulations that have been previously disallowed by the Upper...

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COALITION PAYING LIP SERVICE TO KOALAS AND OTHER THREATENED SPECIES

February 03, 2023

This week’s paltry funding announcements by the Perrottet Government will do little to help save koalas and other threatened species from extinction.  Voters should not be conned by the few million dollars allocated to a handful of environmental research projects.  Nature Conservation Council Chief...

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NSW Labor commits to serious koala protection

January 19, 2023

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the state’s peak environment organisation, welcomes Labor’s Plan to Save Koalas. NCC Chief Executive Jacqui Mumford says the plan represents serious and overdue action to address the most pressing threat facing koalas in our state. “Loss of habitat...

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Murray Cod vanishing from the Darling-Baaka

January 17, 2023

Appalling water management is to blame for the complete eradication of the iconic Murray Cod in stretches of the Darling-Baaka River in New South Wales.  The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research program’s 2022 survey found not one single Murray Cod between...

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