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Tess Ikonomou

Water buybacks on the cards if legislation stalls

The $13b Murray-Darling Basin plan aims to return 450 gigalitres of water by June 2024. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A proposed extension to a looming end of year deadline for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is yet to clinch the crucial support of the Greens or coalition. 

The $13 billion plan aimed to return 450 gigalitres of water to the environment by June 2024, but legislation put forward by the Albanese government would push that back to the end of 2027.

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