Footnotes
Chapter 2 - Background
[1]
South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage, Coorong,
and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar Management
Plan, 2000, p. 5.
[2]
Threatened Ecological Community Nomination Form, Humane Society
International, attachment to Submission 17, p. 5.
[3]
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is a global treaty adopted in the
Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971. The treaty supports international cooperation
for the 'conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources' and is the
only global treaty that deals with a particular ecosystem (wetlands). Aside
from the River Murray Channel, all of the six Icon Sites identified under the
Living Murray Initiative are listed as, or are part of, Wetlands of International
Significance under the Ramsar Convention.
[4]
P. Gell and D. Haynes, A Palaeoecological Assessment of Water Quality
Change in The Coorong, South Australia, Diatoma, University of Adelaide,
2005, p. 12.
[5]
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC), Submission 76, p. 14.
[6]
Dr Ian T. Webster, An overview of the Hydrodynamics of the Coorong
and Murray Mouth, CSIRO, p. 3.
[7]
South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage, Coorong,
and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar Management
Plan, 2000, p. 10.
[8]
MDBC, Design and operation of the Barrages,
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/rmw/river_murray_system/barrages/design_and_operation_of_the_barrages
[9]
MDBC, Lower Lakes Fact Sheet
[10]
MDBC, Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray
Mouth Icon Site Environmental Management Plan 2006-07, pp 16-17, http://www.thelivingmurray.mdbc.gov.au/publications#pub_icon (accessed 29 September 2008.)
[11]
South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage, Coorong, and
Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar Management
Plan, 2000, p. 4.
[12]
MDBC Submission 76, Part 2, p.3. See also Senate Standing Committee
on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport, Water Policy Initiatives,
December 2006, pp 21-27.
[13]
CSIRO, Water Availability in the Murray-Darling Basin:
A Report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Murray-Darling
Basin Sustainable Yields Project, 2008, p. 5.
[14]
Submission 76, Part 2, pp 3-4.
[15]
See MDBC Submission 76, Part 2, p. 4, quoting Australian Bureau of Statistics
figures for 2008.
[16]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 4.
[17]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 4.
[18]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 4.
[19]
The Living Murray Initiative is a partnership of the Federal, NSW,
Victorian, South Australian and ACT governments established in 2002. The first
step of the program focuses on recovering 500 gigalitres of water for the River
Murray along with improving the environment at six Icon Sites chosen for their
high ecological value. Most are listed as internationally significant wetlands
under the Ramsar convention. The six sites are: Barmah-Milewa Forest;
Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest; Hattah Lakes; Chowilla Floodplains and
Lindsay-Wallpolla Islands; Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth and River
Murray Channel.
[20]
Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Submission 71, p. 1.
[21]
MDBC, Murray System Drought Update No.15, September 2008, pp
5-6. See also Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and
Transport, Water Policy Initiatives, December 2006, pp 26-27.
[22]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 5.
[23]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 6.
[24]
Submission 76, Part 2, pp 6-7.
[25]
Submission 76, p. 78.
[26]
Submission 76, pp 8-9.
[27]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 4.
[28]
In NSW water access licences specify a share component and an allocation
component; in SA there are currently two types of water licences – a licence
endorsed with a water (holding) allocation and a licence endorsed with a water
(taking) allocation, will change shortly. In Queensland water entitlements
specify the conditions for the taking of water and water allocations are only
created once a resource operations plan has been finalised for the relevant
water resource area, in Victoria water may be allocated by the minister as an
environmental entitlement, a bulk entitlement (held by operators), a water
share or other licences to take and use water.
[29]
Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water Initiative, 25 June 2004, Schedule B(i) Glossary of Terms, p. 30, http://www.nwc.gov.au/resources/documents/Intergovernmental-Agreement-on-a-national-water-initiative.pdf (accessed on 27 September 2008).
[30]
The Bondi Group is an incorporated organisation which represents the
interests of Australian private irrigation water supply enterprises in the
continuing public debate over water and the policy setting which follows that
debate.
[31]
Committee Hansard, 19 September, 2008, pp 60 – 61.
[32]
The Wentworth Group, Submission 71, p. 7.
[33]
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/nrm/the_cap (accessed 2 October 2008). The cap does not constrain new developments provided they do not result in additional water
extraction.
[34]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 4.
[35]
Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 62.
[36]
COAG Communique, Council of Australian Governments' Meeting – 25 June 2004, http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2004-06-25/index.cfm.
[37]
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Water market rules:
position paper-July 2008, p. xi.
[38]
Transformation allows an irrigator to permanently transform an entitlement
held on their behalf by an operator into an independently held water access
entitlement registered on a state water registry. Once the water access
entitlement is independently held, an irrigator can also trade the entitlement
if they choose to do so.
[39]
COAG Working Group on Climate Change and Water, Report to Council of
Australian Governments, March 2008, p. 11.
[40]
Explanatory Memorandum, Water Bill 2007.
Chapter 3 - The problems facing the Coorong and Lower Lakes
[1]
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC), Submission. 76, p. 2.
[2]
Wentworth Group, Submission 71, p. 7.
[3]
MDBC, Submission 76, Part 2, pp 7-8.
[4]
MDBC, Submission 76, Part 2, pp 14-18.
[5]
Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, Written opening statement.
[6]
BoM, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, Written opening
statement. See also Submission 71, p. 7.
[7]
BoM, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, Written opening
statement.
[8]
Dr Don Blackmore, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 91.
[9]
Working Group on Climate Change and Water, Report to Council of
Australian Governments, March 2008, p. 2, http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2008-03-26/docs/CCWWG_water_report.doc (accessed on 29 September 2008).
[10]
Working Group on Climate Change and Water, Report to Council of
Australian Governments, March 2008, p. 9, http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2008-03-26/docs/CCWWG_water_report.doc (accessed on 29 September 2008).
[11]
Council of Australian Governments Communiqué, 3 July 2008, http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2008-07-03/index.cfm#water (accessed 29 September 2008).
[12]
Council of Australian Governments Communiqué, 26 March 2008, http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2008-03-26/index.cfm#water (accessed 29 September 2008).
[13]
Mr Robert Freeman, MDBA, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 75.
[14]
http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/murray/drought/index.html (accessed 29 September 2008).
[15]
Rob Fitzpatrick, Steve Marvanek, Paul Shand, Richard Merry and Mark Thomas,
Acid Sulfate Soil Maps of the River Murray below Blanchetown (Lock 1) and
Lakes Alexandrina and Albert when water levels were at pre- drought and current
drought conditions, CSIRO Land and Water Science Report 12/08, February
2008.
[16]
Dr Matt Hipsey, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 54.
[17]
Dr Matt Hipsey, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 54.
[18]
EC – Electrical Conductivity, a quick and easy, but not completely
accurate measure of salinity.
[19]
http://data.rivermurray.sa.gov.au/ (accessed 23 September 2008). For the higher figure see Minister Maywald, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. ****. Water above 2500EC is not regarded as suitable for human consumption
or irrigation except for salt tolerant plants. Pigs, poultry and dairy cattle
can tolerate water up to 10 000EC. Sea water is approximately 50 000EC.
[20]
http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/murray/drought/index.html (accessed 29 September 2008).
[21]
A much publicised example has been the appearance of a bristle worm which
attaches to the shells of freshwater turtles, weighing them down and eventually
killing them.
[22]
MDBC, Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray
Mouth Icon Site Environmental Management Plan 2006-07, p. 25, http://www.thelivingmurray.mdbc.gov.au/publications#pub_icon
(accessed 29 September 2008).
[23]
MDBC, Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray
Mouth Icon Site Environmental Management Plan 2006-07, p. 2, http://www.thelivingmurray.mdbc.gov.au/publications#pub_icon (accessed 29 September 2008).
[24]
MDBC, Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray
Mouth Icon Site Environmental Management Plan 2006-07, p. 21, http://www.thelivingmurray.mdbc.gov.au/publications#pub_icon (accessed 29 September 2008).
[25]
Cr Strother, Mayor of Coorong, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 47.
[26]
Mayor McHugh, Mayor of Alexandria Council, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p.100.
[27]
MDBC, Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray
Mouth Icon Site Environmental Management Plan 2006-07, p. 10, http://www.thelivingmurray.mdbc.gov.au/publications#pub_icon (accessed 29 September 2008).
[28]
MDBC, Submission 76, Part 2, p. 11.
[29]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 11.
[30]
Submission 76, Part 2, p. 13.
Chapter 4 - Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue) Bill 2008
[1]
Explanatory Memorandum, Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue)
Bill 2008, p. 2.
[2]
Second Reading Speech, Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue)
Bill 2008.
[3]
Second Reading Speech, Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue)
Bill 2008.
[4]
Mr Robert Freeman, Murray Darling Basin Authority (MBDA), Committee
Hansard , 26 September 2008, p. 75.
[5]
Mr Robert Freeman, MDBA, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 75.
[6]
Mr Andrew Gregson, New South Wales Irrigators Council, Committee
Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 33.
[7]
Dr Wendy Craik, MDBC, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 75.
[8]
Mr Gregson, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 33.
[9]
Mr Stewart Ellis, Murray River Irrigation, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 15.
[10]
Mr Kent Martin, South Australian Farmers Federation, Committee Hansard,
10 September 2008, pp 88,89, (MIS – Managed Investment Scheme).
Chapter 5 - Possible Solutions
[1]
DEWHA, Answer to question on notice, received, 2 October 2008.
[2]
Bruce Brooks and Mike South, Applying a Localised Water Balance
approach to estimate losses from Lake Alexandrina
and Lake Albert for the years 1970 to 2006. Cited in several
submissions, See, for example Mr M. Williams MP, Submission 24, and Ms Liz
Yelland, Submission 32.
[3]
MDBC, Submission 76, p. 3.
[4]
See the Hon Karlene Maywald, Minister for the River Murray and Minister
for Water Security, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008. See also Submission 76.
[5]
Submission 76, p. 4.
[6]
Dr William Young, CSIRO, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 24.
[7]
Dr Young, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 24, and several other submissions and witnesses.
[8]
Mr David Harriss, NSW Department of Water and Energy, Committee
Hansard, 18 September 2008, p 32.
[9]
Dr Thomas Hatton, CSIRO, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 16.
[10]
Submission 76, p. 10.
[11]
Dr David Jones, BoM, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 3.
[12]
Dr Jones, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 5 and Mr David
Harris, Snowy Hydro Ltd, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 99.
[13]
Dr Jones, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 8.
[14]
Dr Hatton, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 11.
[15] ABS 4610.0.55.007
Water and the Murray-Darling Basin: A
Statistical Profile 2000-01 to 2005-06, p.13 and CSIRO Rainfall-runoff
modelling across the Murray-Darling Basin: A report
to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Murray-Darling
Basin Sustainable Yields Project.
[16]
The committee received some submissions with alternative sources and
solutions which arrived too late for detailed consideration, these included
short term solutions, such as using tankers to move water from northern Australia
– see Professor Allan Barton, Submission 79 – and longer term proposals
for reducing water requirements in agriculture through biodynamic techniques –
see Biodynamic Agriculture Australia, Submission 80.
[17]
The committee notes the loose usage of the term 'overallocation' and
believes this needs to be clarified. In the committee's view, overallocation
has been used to describe the excessive issuing of water entitlements – which
the current government's buyback program is intended to address; the allocation
of too much actual water to high priority users – such as permanent planting
and human critical needs; and over-harvesting of unregulated flows, such as
overland flows.
[18]
DEWHA, Submission 1, p. 5.
[19]
MDBC, Submission 76, p. 6.
[20]
Professor Richard Kingsford, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 6.
[21]
Professor Richard Kingsford, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 6.
[22]
Dr Arlene Buchan, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Committee
Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 26.
[23]
See the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water evidence, Committee
Hansard, 9 September 2008; and Professor Kingsford, Committee Hansard
19 September 2008.
[24]
Mr Stewart Ellis, Committee Hansard, 19 September 208, p. 15.
[25]
Submission 1, p. 8.
[26]
Mr David Harriss, NSW DWE Committee Hansard, 18 September 2008, p. 24.
[27]
Submission 1, p. 7.
[28]
Water Market Report: Spot Allocations as at 15 September 2008, tabled by Ms Mattila, 19 September 2008.
[29]
Submission 1, p. 6.
[30]
Dr Arlene Buchan, ACF, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 21.
[31]
Mr Dick Thompson, Murrumbidgee Irrigation, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, pp 32‑33.
[32]
Ms Jenni Mattila, Bondi group coordinator, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 61.
[33]
Dr Blackmore, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 99.
[34]
Submission 1, p. 5.
[35]
NSW DWE, Submission 65, p. 18.
[36]
Professor Kingsford, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, pp 5-6.
[37]
Minister Maywald, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 36.
[38]
Mr David Harris, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 96.
[39]
Mr David Harris, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 97.
[40]
Mr David Harris, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 97.
[41] http://www2.mdbc.gov.au/river_murray/river_murray_system/locks_and_weirs/locks_and_weirs.htm Weir 9 also raises the water level high enough to allow gravity diversion to Lake
Victoria.
[42]
Mr Raymond Najar, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 42. See also Mr Neil Shilabeer, p. 59 and Mayor McHugh, p. 101.
[43]
Professor Kingsford, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 6. Minister Maywald also talked about the possibility of pumping wetlands to achieve a
more natural cycle (p. 42) and Dr Matt Hipsey talked about the acid sulfate
issues from permanent lying water all through the system. (p. 57)
[44]
See for example, Dr Hatton, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 24.
[45]
The Hon Peter Garrett MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the
Arts, 'Pipeline Approved with Environmental Conditions', Media Release, 12 September 2008.
[46]
Plug the Pipe, Submission 42, pp 2-6. See also Mr Pattison/Mr
Richardson, Plug the Pipe, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, pp 41-
45.
[47]
Dr Craik, MDBC, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 62.
[48]
Mr Kenneth Pattison, Plug the Pipe, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 44.
[49]
Bruce Brooks and Mike South, Applying a Localised Water Balance
approach to estimate losses from Lake Alexandrina
and Lake Albert for the years 1970 to 2006.
[50]
Mr John King, Submission 4.
[51]
Dr Bill Phillips, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 103.
[52]
Dr Kerri Muller, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 12.
[53]
Water Market Report: Spot Allocations as at 15 September 2008, tabled by Ms Mattila, 19 September 2008.
[54]
Dr Matt Hipsey, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 57.
[55]
Dr Matt Hipsey, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 57.
[56]
See for example, the South Australian Government, Submission 73 and
Wentworth Group, Submission 71.
[57]
Dr Kerri Muller, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 15. (EPBC - Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation, refers to the 1999
Act)
[58]
There has been some concern that salt will accumulate above this weir and
contaminate drinking water, however dilution flows will carry salt on into the Lower
Lakes.
[59]
See, for example, the NSW Farmers Federation Submission 63 and Committee
Hansard, 9 September 2008; and Dr Peter Marsh, Submission 38.
[60]
Mr Lee O' Brien, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 64. See also the Coorong Council Submission 66, p. 8.
[61]
Professor Robert Fitzpatrick, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 74.
[62]
R.P. Bourman and E. J. Barnett, Impacts of River Regulation on the
Terminal Lakes and Mouth of the River Murray, South Australia, Australian
Geographical Studies, 33(1), p. 104.
[63]
Mr David Wainwright, WBM Consulting, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 54.
[64]
Minister Maywald, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 45
[65]
Although the sediments would be accumulating more sulfate ions,
they would remain waterlogged permanently and the volume of water would be
better able to buffer any existing acid.
[66]
Dr Ian Webster, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, pp 54, 57
[67]
Wentworth Group, Submission 71, p. 5.
[68]
Professor Fitzpatrick, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 73.
[69]
Professor Fitzpatrick, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 71.
[70]
The committee is not aware of any previous remediation project on this
scale elsewhere.
[71]
Councillor Roger Strother, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 49.
Minority Report - The Australian Greens & Senator Nick Xenophon
[1]
Dr Bill Phillips, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 105.
[2]
The term ‘wicked problem’ is used as a mathematician would use it—
defining an issue highly resistant to resolution. This terminology was proposed
by urban planners H. W. J. Rittel and M. M. Webber in 1973. See also Tackling
Wicked Problems: A Public Policy Perspective, Australian Public Service
Commission, http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications07/wickedproblems.pdf
[3]
Dr Tom Hatton, CSIRO, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, pp 12-13. When questioned Dr Hatton indicated that the decline was of the order of
50%, but offered to provide exact numbers on notice.
[4]
Prof. Mike Young, UA, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 13.
[5]
Wentworth Group Submission 71, also Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, pp 19‑21.
[6]
Inquiry into Water Policy Initiatives, RRAT Committee 2005-06; Inquiry
into Additional Water Supplies for South East Queensland - Traveston Crossing
Dam, RRAT Committee 2007.
[7]
Inquiry into Climate Change and the Australian Agricultural Sector, RRAT
Committee 2007‑08.
[8]
Inquiry into the Murray-Darling Basin Amendment Bill 2006, RRAT
Committee 2006.
[9]
Murray Darling Basin Association, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008 p. 39.
[10]
SAFF, Committee Hansard,10 September 2008, p. 88.
[11]
Ms Helen Gillian, Mannum Progress Association, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 114.
[12]
Dr Arlene Buchan, ACF, Submission 81, p. 2.
[13]
South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board, Lakes
Alexandrina and Albert ecological condition report to the Murray
Darling Basin Ministerial Council, April 2008.
p. 4.
[14]
Dr Kerri Muller, NRM, Submission 40.
[15]
Dr Bill Phillips, Riversmart Australia, Submission 12.
[16]
South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board, Lakes
Alexandrina and Albert ecological condition report to the Murray
Darling Basin Ministerial Council, April 2008.
p. 4.
[17]
Dr Bill Phillips, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 103.
[18] Dr Kerri Muller,
Submission 40; SA Government, Submission 73; and MDBC, Submission
76. Note however that the evidence of Dr Bill Phillips seemed to indicate
that the new management plan for the Coorong and Lower Lakes which is currently
under consideration contains a tipping point management threshold of -0.8 AHD. See
Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 109.
[19]
South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board, Lakes
Alexandrina and Albert ecological condition report to the Murray
Darling Basin Ministerial Council, April 2008.
[20]
Icon site Environmental Management Plan for the Lower Lakes, Coorong
and Murray Mouth, The Living Murray Initiative.
[21]
MDBC, Submission 76, pp 4-5.
[22]
Dr Bill Phillips, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, pp 105-7.
[23]
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Submission 1.
[24]
See evidence of Dr William Phillips, RiverSmart Australia, Committee
Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 110; and Dr Kerri Muller, NRM, Committee
Hansard, pp 9 and 16-17.
[25]
Dr Kerri Muller, NRM, Submission 40; MDBC, Submission 76; Committee
Hansard 10 September 2008, pp 59-60.
[26]
Dr. Bill Phillips, Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 110.
[27]
Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
[28]
Mr Tony Slayter, Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts, Committee
Hansard, 18 September 2008, pp 12-13.
[29]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 16, see also p. 17.
[30]
MDBC, Submission 76, p. 3.
[31]
Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, pp 20-21.
[32]
Dr Arlene Buchan, Inland Rivers Network and Australian Conservation
Foundation, Opportunities to deliver immediate and ongoing water for the
ecological crisis in the internationally significant Lower Lakes and Coorong, Submission
81, Attachment 2.
[33]
Dr David Jones, Bureau of Meteorology, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 4.
[34]
NSW Government, Submission 65; and SA Government, Submission 73.
[35]
Mr Dick Thompson, Murrumbidgee Irrigation Ltd, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, pp 34-35.
[36]
Dr Arlene Buchan, ACF, Submission 81, p. 4. See also Inland Rivers
Network, Submission 69, p. 5 and Dr Arlene Buchan, ACF, Committee
Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 25.
[37]
Dr Arlene Buchan, Australian Conservation Foundation, Submission 69,
p. 4.
[38]
Plug the Pipe, response to Question on Notice, p. 2.
[39]
Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, p. 42.
[40]
Plug the Pipe, Submission 42, pp 3-4.
[41]
Plug the Pipe, Submission 42, p. 4.
[42]
Victorian Auditor General, Planning for Water Infrastructure in Victoria,
2008, p. 32.
[43]
Dr Wendy Craik, MDBC, Committee Hansard, 26 September 2008, pp 62-63, 72-73 and 78-80.
[44]
Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 23.
[45]
Committee Hansard, 9 September 2008, p. 27.
[46]
Committee Hansard, Wednesday 10 September, p. 4.
[47]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 4.
[48]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 4.
[49]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 4.
[50]
Dr Kerri Muller, NRM, Submission 40; Dr Bill Phillips, RiverSmart Australia,
Submission 12; and Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Submission
71.
[51]
Dr. Bill Phillips, RiverSmart Australia, Committee Hansard, 9
September 2008, pp 103-4; The Hon Karlene Maywald, Minister for the River
Murray and Minister for Water Security, South Australian Government, Committee
Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 40; Councillor Roger Struther, Mayor Coorong
Shire, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 49. Conservation Council
of South Australia, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 5. See also Answers to Questions on Notice from the Department of Environment, Water,
Heritage and the Arts, p. 3.
[52]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 21.
[53]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 50.
[54]
Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 53.
Coalition Senators' Additional Comments
[1]
Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Submission 71, p. 4.
[2]
Dr Bill Phillips, Submission 12, p. 2.
[3]
Hon Karlene Maywald MP, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 44.
[4]
Hon Karlene Maywald MP, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 32.
[5]
Professor Mike Young, Committee Hansard, 10 September 2008, p. 24.
[6]
Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Submission 71, p. 5.
[7]
Southern Alexandrina Business Association, Submission 13, p. 1.
[8]
Southern Alexandrina Business Association, Submission 13, p. 3.
[9]
Hon Karlene Maywald MP, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 46.
[10]
DEWHA, Answers to Questions on Notice, 2 October 2008.
[11]
DEWHA, Submission 1, p. 5.
[12]
NSW Department of Water & Energy, Submission 65, p. 18.
[13]
Hon Karlene Maywald MP, Committee Hansard, 19 September 2008, p. 40.
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