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Introduced into the House of
Representatives on 20 September 2012
Portfolio: Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
1.2
This bill amends the Water Act 2007 to allow the long-term
average sustainable diversion limit (SDL) set by the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
to be adjusted within clearly defined limits without invoking the formal Basin
Plan amendment process.
1.3
The bill will allow an adjustment mechanism to be included in the Basin
Plan in a way which will aid confidence and transparency in the operation of
such a mechanism. The bill sets out the broad parameters for the mechanism, how
it is intended to operate and introduces transparency in the process, requiring
any use of the mechanism to be reported formally and publicly to the
Parliament.
Right to an adequate standard of
living and right to health
1.4
The statement of compatibility states that the bill engages and promotes
the right to an adequate standard of living in article 11 of ICESCR and the
right to health in article 12 of ICESCR. Both these rights have been
interpreted to encompass the right to water.
1.5
The committee considers that the bill does not appear to raise any
human rights concerns and the statement of compatibility is adequate.
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