States' dummy-spit over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan clouds the real facts
- Written by Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The Darling River near Menindee, NSW.Tim Keegan/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Given the outraged reaction from some state water ministers to the disallowance of an amendment to the Murray Darling Basin Plan, you would be forgiven for thinking that a heinous crime had been committed against farmers in upstream states.
In fact, what happened was that...
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