Farmers gear up to fight water buybacks as federal budget allocates funding to meet Murray-Darling targets
by Anne Davies from on (#654ZS)
Labor's budget sent a shiver down the spine' of irrigators but environmental groups welcomed the news
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The federal government is on a collision course with irrigators and the farming lobby after Tuesday's budget allocated an unspecified amount to meet the environmental water targets in the Murray-Darling Basin plan, likely for water buybacks.
The New South Wales Irrigators' Council has warned further buybacks would cause concern among basin communities" and leave food and fibre producers in a more precarious position next drought".
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