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Refreshing the Plan The Senate Select Committee on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Refreshing the Plan March 2016 © Commonwealth of Australia ISBN 978-1-76010-396-5 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License. The details of this licence are available on the Creative Commons website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/. This document was printed by the Senate Printing Unit, Parliament House, Canberra. Membership of the Committee Current Members Date of appointment Senator David Leyonhjelm (NSW, LDP) 10 August 2015 (elected Chair on 13 August 2016) Senator Bob Day (SA, FFP) 10 August 2015 (elected Deputy Chair on 13 August 2016) Senator Sean Edwards (SA, LP) 12 October 2015 Senator John Madigan (VIC, IND) 10 August 2015 Senator Jenny McAllister (NSW, ALP) 11 August 2015 Senator Barry O'Sullivan (QLD, NP) 23 February 2016 Senator Robert Simms (SA, AG) 12 October 2015 Former Members Term of appointment Senator Matthew Canavan (QLD, NP) 25 June 2015 – 23 February 2016 Senator Lee Rhiannon (NSW, AG) 11 August 2015 – 12 October 2015 Senator Anne Ruston (SA, LP) 25 June 2015 – 12 October 2015 Former Substitute Member Term of appointment Senator Anne Urquhart (TAS, ALP) 8 December 2015 – 9 December 2015 Participating Members Senator John Williams (NSW, NP) Senator Gavin Marshall (VIC, ALP) Senator Bridget McKenzie (VIC, NP) Senator Nick Xenophon (SA, IND) Secretariat Mr Mark Fitt, Secretary Mr Gerry McInally, Principal Research Officer Ms Fiona Gardner, Senior Research Officer Ms Natasha Rusjakovski, Senior Research Officer Ms Hannah Dunn, Administrative Officer (from 19 October 2015) Ms Louise Kelly, Administrative Officer (until 22 January 2016) Ms Sarah Batts, Administrative Officer (until 19 October 2015) PO Box 6100 Ph: 02 6277 3228 Parliament House Fax: 02 6277 5829 Canberra ACT 2600 E-mail: [email protected] iii Table of Contents Membership of the Committee ........................................................................ iii Terms of Reference ............................................................................................ ix Abbreviations and Acronyms ........................................................................... xi Executive Summary ........................................................................................ xiii Recommendations ............................................................................................. xv Chapter 1.............................................................................................................. 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1 Conduct of the inquiry ............................................................................................ 1 Report structure ...................................................................................................... 2 Scope of the inquiry ................................................................................................ 2 Notes on references ................................................................................................ 3 Acknowledgments .................................................................................................. 3 Chapter 2.............................................................................................................. 5 Background ............................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 5 Background and history of the basin ...................................................................... 5 Table 2.1. Major land use activities in the MDB region by area ........................... 5 Water management in the basin ............................................................................. 6 Figure 2.1 Governance of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority .......................... 10 The Murray-Darling Basin Plan ........................................................................... 11 Chapter 3............................................................................................................ 15 Basin state issues ..................................................................................................... 15 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 15 Figure 3.1 The Basin catchments and states ......................................................... 16 Figure 3.2 The Northern and Southern Basins ..................................................... 17 Northern Basin ...................................................................................................... 17 v Figure 3.3 The Northern Basin ............................................................................. 18 Southern Basin ...................................................................................................... 29 Figure 3.4 Southern Basin .................................................................................... 29 Figure 3.5 Menindee lakes, NSW......................................................................... 33 New South Wales ................................................................................................. 35 Victoria ................................................................................................................. 38 South Australia ..................................................................................................... 50 Figure 3.6 Lower Lakes Barrages ........................................................................ 55 Figure 3.7 Bird Island – Main Murray mouth channel......................................... 64 Other matters ........................................................................................................ 75 Chapter 4 ............................................................................................................ 81 Basin-wide issues .................................................................................................... 81 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 81 The value of water and its ownership ................................................................... 81 Use, quality and management of water .............................................................. 108 Dissenting Report ............................................................................................ 135 Australian Greens ................................................................................................. 135 Dissenting Report ............................................................................................ 139 Australian Labor Party ........................................................................................ 139 Dissenting Report ............................................................................................ 145 Senator John Madigan ......................................................................................... 145 Dissenting Report ............................................................................................ 149 Senator Nick Xenophon ....................................................................................... 149 Appendix 1 ....................................................................................................... 151 Submissions received ............................................................................................ 151 Answers to questions on notice ............................................................................ 163 Tabled documents ................................................................................................. 164 Appendix 2 ....................................................................................................... 167 Public Hearings ..................................................................................................... 167 Appendix 3 ....................................................................................................... 177 Recent history of basin water reform ................................................................. 177 vi Appendix 4 ....................................................................................................... 179 Roles and responsibilities for Murray–Darling Basin water reforms ............. 179 vii viii Terms of Reference On 24 June 2015, the Senate resolved to establish the Select Committee on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan with the following terms of reference: (1) That a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on the Murray- Darling Basin Plan be established to inquire into and report, on or before 26 February 2016, on the positive and negative impacts of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and associated Commonwealth programs on regional communities, with particular reference to: (a) the implementation of the plan, including: (i) its progress, (ii) its costs, especially those related to further implementation, (iii) its direct and indirect effects on agricultural industries, local businesses and community wellbeing, and (iv) any evidence of environmental changes
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