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Tory Shepherd

‘Nothing off the table’ in bid to deliver 450GL of water for Murray-Darling, Labor says

Tanya Plibersek Labor SA Murray Coalition Australia South Australia
Coorong National Park
The Murray-Darling Basin Plan promises 450GL of water for South Australian wetlands such as Coorong or the Lower Lakes, but only 2.6GL has been delivered so far. Photograph: REDA&CO/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Nothing is off the table in the battle to deliver 450 gigalitres of environmental flows for the Murray-Darling says the water minister, Tanya Plibersek, accusing the opposition of tying the Murray-Darling Basin Plan up in “brown tape”.

While the federal government has consistently said that voluntary water buybacks could be a solution, Plibersek said on Wednesday that she had not given up hope on other projects to meet the 2024 deadline.

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