On the pages of The Australian Financial Review on November 16, 2010, Sydney barrister Jospehine Kelly wrote that:
“No one in federal Parliament is being honest with the people of the Murray-Darling basin and the Australian pubilc. The Water Act puts the environment first when allocating water to the basin.
“Social and economic considerations are not relevant to deciding how much water the environment needs. Water available for human use is what is left…”
Today Senator Barnaby Joyce forced a Senate inquiry into the Water Act with the support of independents Senator Fielding and Senator Xenophon. The inquiry is to determine whether in fact the Act does provide an equal balance between economic, social and environmental factors – or not.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.