COVER STORY: Angry farmers burn draft Murray-Darling plan*

Angry farmers in Griffith, New South Wales, have burned copies of the Murray-Darling Basin draft water plan that would destroy their towns and to protest the Basin plan’s consultation and planning process.Front-cover photo is courtesy of The Land, Fairfax Media, NSW.It was just one of a series of angry confrontations between farmers and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), which claimed that its draft Basin plan would cost only 800 jobs and reduce agricultural production by only $800 milli…

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