A report card into the A$13 billion Murray–Darling Basin Plan has found much work is needed to ensure the ecology of Australia’s largest river system is properly restored. The assessment, by the ...

More water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin will be purchased from farmers and irrigators in a renewed push by the federal government to return 450 gigalitres of water to the environment.

A community landcare group in Victoria’s northwest has initiated legal action against what it claims is an “unlawful” environmental project in Australia’s southeastern Murray-Darling Basin. The ...

Michael Stewardson is a member of the Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Science, which advises the Murray Darling Basin Authority, although he is not representing the views of ...