Water released onto private farms with no permission and no compensation, and the department admits it never sought legal advice. Senator Matthew Canavan says Estimates has exposed a property rights fight.
Michael McCormack
Posted inAgribusiness, Agriculture, Cost of Living, National News, News, Roads and Infrastructure, Water
Coalition taskforce to hunt for new dams
One in six apples, four in 10 blocks of butter, and nearly half our pork could be imported by 2040, the Coalition warns. Its answer is more dams.
Posted inBarwon Electorate, Feature, Gunnedah Shire, Long Read, Politics, Tamworth Electorate, Tamworth Regional, Water
The pipeline that wasn’t: inside the fight over Keepit water
WEEKEND LONG READ: The Keepit pipeline is dead. Downstream towns are relieved, Tamworth’s mayor calls it political, and the city’s backup is a pipeline that has sat full of stale water for years. What happens in the next drought?
Posted inLocal News, Narrabri, Roads and Infrastructure, Transport and Freight
Local leaders testify to “human cost” of Inland Rail axing
Regional mayors, farming leaders and senior Nationals MPs have taken the fight over Inland Rail directly to Parliament House, accusing the Federal Government of abandoning communities that invested years preparing for Inland Rail.