The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is one of Australia's most ambitious environmental reforms, seeking to restore environmental flows to a river system that nearly collapsed at the end of the Millennium Drought. In 2017, basin state governments used that mechanism to make three key decisions that all involved swapping water recovery with a range of projects that delivered the equivalent environmental …
Former governors-general – including the disgraced Peter Hollingworth — could have millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded pensions and entitlements stripped by the federal parliament under proposed new laws. Key points: The Greens will introduce legislation that would enable governors-general to be stripped of future entitlements if they were found to have engaged in misconduct It comes as former governor-general Peter …