Experts say discovery of fire ants in Murray Darling Basin should be ‘ringing alarm bells’
Risk of fire ants spreading at ‘another level’ after detection in Oakey, Queensland, says chair of NSW Farmers’ biosecurity committee
February 2024
The rural network
‘The river has been destroyed’: expert says agriculture has overshadowed science in the Murray-Darling Basin
An ecologist who spent 36 years with NSW Fisheries says scientists working for the government are ‘aghast’ at the state of the Darling River but can’t speak publicly
January 2024
The rural network
Menindee fish kills: inconsistent pesticide levels sparks calls for review of water testing methods
Experts call for review after two sets of water samples from the Darling-Baaka River reported by the state’s top scientific bodies contained different results
December 2023
Murray-Darling Basin plan: what Labor’s new ‘breakthrough’ laws mean for the environment and communities
The rural network
‘Bracing for another fish kill’: locals sound the alarm as water quality drops at Menindee
November 2023
Labor and Greens reach deal on Murray Darling Basin plan for 450 gigalitres of environmental flows
The rural network
Irrigators overdrew 40,000ML of water from NSW rivers, audit finds, as farmers protest buy-backs
October 2023
Murray-Darling Basin plan: government should expand voluntary buybacks, Productivity Commission finds
Labor’s Murray-Darling Basin water buyback plan would trigger wave of job losses, farmers warn
September 2023
The rural network
About 1,000 protesters rally in Sydney against coal seam gas and water buybacks
Greens threaten to block Murray-Darling Basin plan changes over water recovery failure
August 2023
Menindee mass fish deaths symptomatic of degradation of river ecosystem, NSW chief scientist says
Foreign ownership of Australia’s water rights on the rise
Environmental crisis looms as Murray cod virtually disappear from NSW Lower Darling
Murray-Darling Basin plan: states given three more years to finish water projects as extra buybacks on table
The rural network
Murray-Darling Basin plan: more money or time needed to complete water buybacks, experts say
Darling-Baaka River at Menindee faces more fish kills as temperatures rise
July 2023
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Mass stranding in WA – as it happened
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Murray-Darling Basin plan: Labor gives states more time to deliver water pledges despite El Niño fears
Environment minister Tanya Plibersek has declined to say if the federal government will use its power to buy back more water
Murray-Darling basin environmental flows found to be key to saving 140 species at risk of extinction
Environment Victoria calls for Andrews government to end opposition to commonwealth water purchases to save river
