The purpose of this interim report is to detail the concerns that the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport has with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's Proposed Basin Plan (the Basin Plan).

This book brings together 27 chapters from some of the world's leading practitioners and experts on environmental water, communities, law, economics and governance. Its goal is to understand the many dimensions of water in the Murray- Darling Basin and provide guidance about how to implement a water management plan that addresses the needs of communities...

Buybacks aren’t the only way to reduce the amount of water being taken out of the system, argues Brian Toohey in Inside Story.

This study responds to the Australian governments’ request for the Commission to examine various aspects of water purchasing, including mechanisms for diversifying the current approach, synergies with the infrastructure program and identifying how impediments to better outcomes could be overcome.

This issues paper looks at alternative market-based mechanisms that could be used to diversify the federal government's water purchase program and secure access to the suite of entitlements necessary to restore balance to the use of the resource. The Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin program currently uses an open tender process as the...