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Over in the Senate and the Nationals seem to be blowing up the Murray Darling Basin plan.

Bridget McKenzie’s office has sent out a statement. Here is part of it:

Today the National Party in the Senate will put forward amendments to the Basin Plan.

Last year, National Party basin MP’s, Anne Webster, and Damian Drum, put forward water amendments in an attempt to address basin communities concerns about water availability during the drought.

The amendments will see the removal of the controversial 450 gigalitres (GL) that Federal Labor hastily added to the Plan in 2012 to get South Australia to sign up, but the 450GL was never guaranteed.

The Nationals believe the…

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