Australia risks a shortage of rice and other staples during the coronavirus pandemic unless Southern Murray urgently receive water allocations.
Victorian Water Minister Lisa Neville will use a new review that warns a key element of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan has a"high chance of failure"to demand a rethink of a plan which will see some areas of Victoria intentionally flooded.
A stoush involving leading Chris Corrigan and the public broadcaster has erupted following a Four Corners report on the Murray-Darling basin plan
One woman took extraordinary lengths to get information to the public anonymously.
The head of a company embroiled in a maligned $79 million water purchase has defended the deal and described questions over the conduct of government MPs as “a joke”.
In its emergency court action,Blue Sky has revealed that it rejected a management buyout offer and a request from a US investor to stop acting as trustee.
A Queensland government minister says a deal he proposed was vastly different and would have delivered twice as much water as that signed by then cabinet minister Barnaby Joyce.
Cabinet ministers could be put on the stand in a major judicial inquiry to be proposed by Labor leader Bill Shorten on Wednesday.
Why should we care about water and how might the issue affect the federal election result?
Two senior government figures have been drawn into controversy surrounding the deal,which has thrust water management to the fore of the federal election campaign.
In a marathon radio interview,the former water minister lit up the airwaves with cornflake idioms,mixed metaphors and obfuscation.