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.