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Water fight intensifies: Stakeholders take their message to parliaments

  • Jun 18
  • 1 min read
Sophie Baldwin from Southern Riverina Irrigators, Chris Taylor from Kagome, dairy farmer Glen Gordon, Geoff Kendell from Central Murray Environmental Floodplain Group, Andrew Leahy from the VFF, Kristin Favaloro from Australian Dairy Products Federation and Monica Morona RGA at Victorian Parliament House on Wednesday.
Sophie Baldwin from Southern Riverina Irrigators, Chris Taylor from Kagome, dairy farmer Glen Gordon, Geoff Kendell from Central Murray Environmental Floodplain Group, Andrew Leahy from the VFF, Kristin Favaloro from Australian Dairy Products Federation and Monica Morona RGA at Victorian Parliament House on Wednesday.

District providers are taking their fight for fairness in water policy to the basin’s key decision makers.


Following on from a previous visit to NSW Parliament House, a delegation turned up to Victoria Parliament House on Wednesday.


And they will continue their tour at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.


Food security, processing and employment were all on the agenda when the group of concerned stakeholders from the Riverina and northern Victoria met with MPs in Melbourne.


United in their concern over the implications of water recovery under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, the group is calling out the Federal Government’s continued push to buyback water which is increasing competition, pushing up prices and “negatively impacting every single irrigation dependent stakeholder and their community”.


The meeting was hosted by Victorian Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh and led by Southern Riverina Irrigators.



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