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Environment
Keira Jenkins

Court rules Murray-Darling groundwater plan is invalid

The Murray-Darling Basin is the largest water catchment area in Australia. (Stuart Walmsley/AAP PHOTOS)

A Federal Court has overturned a plan to manage groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Justice Angus Stewart declared the Environment Minister's 2022 accreditation of the NSW Murray-Darling Basin Fractured Rock Water Resource Plan invalid, ordering the decision be quashed and reconsidered. 

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