A community group is encouraging the federal government to call out and address the “imperfections” of the controversial Murray Darling Basin Plan while urging for a greater understanding of the plan’s environmental impacts.
Speaking on the National Rural news podcast on Jan. 12, Shelley Scoullar, Chair and co-founder of the Speak Up Campaign—an advocacy group for Basin communities impacted by the Murray Darling Basin Plan—said that policymakers need to look at the reality of the Basin plan.
“[W]e’ve ended up with a basin plan based on numbers and not on outcomes,” Scoullar said.
“The basin plan is a difficult topic or piece of legislation, and we feel that politicians know that there (are) flaws within the basin plan but yet, aren’t brave enough to call them out.”…