Labor backing Murray Darling Basin Plan 2.0

Mike Foley
Updated February 20 2019 - 5:40pm, first published February 18 2019 - 6:20pm
Labor environment spokesman Tony Burke and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at Parliament House in Canberra. Photo Mick Tsikas.
Labor environment spokesman Tony Burke and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at Parliament House in Canberra. Photo Mick Tsikas.

Bipartisan support for the Murray Darling Basin Plan is drying up and the upcoming federal election presents a stark choice for the future of the $13 billion reform to recover water from irrigation for the environment.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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