After 14 years of significant social, economic and agricultural impacts linked to the plan, the group is seeking broad community input to ensure the submission reflects local concerns and lived experience.
Community members can attend a meeting at Deniliquin Golf Club from 1.30pm on Tuesday, March 24, or join an online session from 10am on Thursday, March 26.
To register or get additional information, visit the Murray Regional Strategy Group’s website, or email murrayrsg@gmail.com
The meetings and the final submission will be managed by water consultant Claire Miller.
The group’s chair Geoff Moar emphasises the importance of the submission, and the role that the review will have in addressing the unintended consequences of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
“We need governments to understand that Australia’s food security is important, even more so in a world that is becoming more volatile, and it is being compromised by the Basin Plan.
“Lack of water for agriculture is reducing food supplies and making our nation more reliant on imports.
“When the plan was being developed more than 15 years ago, regional communities were promised an adaptive plan that would be fair and balanced.
“Additionally, we now have demonstrated evidence that the flow volumes originally legislated under the original 2012 Basin Plan cannot be delivered anywhere along the Murray...
“That promise has not been delivered, but there are achievable solutions that can help Australia protect both the environment and our food security.
“I am sure these and many other issues will be raised at our meetings, and look forward to receiving community input to ensure our submission effectively represents the NSW Murray region,” Mr Moar said.
