Agriculture
9 July, 2026
VFF asks: What’s the action from Basin report?
MURRAY Darling Basin Authority must now reveal what it intended to recommend after the release of the 2026 What We Heard report failed to outline the next steps, said farmer leader Andrew Leahy.
MURRAY Darling Basin Authority must now reveal what it intended to recommend after the release of the 2026 What We Heard report failed to outline the next steps, said farmer leader Andrew Leahy.
The Victorian Farmers’ Federation water council Andrew Leahy said the report accurately reflected that communities held differing views on issues such as water buybacks but failed to answer the most important question.
“Communities didn’t spend months engaging with the MDBA just to receive a summary of what everyone said. They deserve to know what the MDBA intends to recommend to government and we want to hear that now,” he said.
“The report tells us there are differing views on water recovery, climate change and buybacks, but it provides almost no indication of how those competing views will be assessed.”
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