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Environment
Adrian Black

Activists take Murray engineering project to court

The forest on the floodplain is "like our crown jewels", Indigenous spokesman Brendan Kennedy says. (HANDOUT/ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AUSTRALIA)

A controversial project to engineer water flows into a Murray River floodplain has hit a retaining wall following an environmental group's Federal Court challenge.

Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park, represented by Environmental Justice Australia, are fighting a Victorian government project aiming to restore more regular water flows at the Nyah floodplain near Swan Hill in northwest Victoria.

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