Bill
Murray-Darling Basin Commission of Inquiry Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Hanson-Young
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-13
- second reading — 2019-02-13
- other — 2019-07-01
- other — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-07-22
- second reading — 2019-07-22
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-02-13.
The bill would create a panel to examine problems in the Murray-Darling Basin.
The panel would look into wrongdoing, the rules for the Basin Plan, effects on the environment and farming, and climate change impacts.
The bill follows a South Australian royal commission that was hampered by other governments not cooperating.
- The bill would set up a commission of inquiry.
- The inquiry would investigate misconduct and the legislative framework for the Basin Plan.
- It would examine the plan's environmental, agricultural and community effects.
- It would look at how funds for the Basin Plan were spent and their impact on environmental watering.
- It would also assess climate change effects on water resources and adaptation measures.
The inquiry would affect the Murray-Darling Basin, its environment, agriculture, river communities, and governments involved in water management.
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