Media releases

Farmers in Tasmania's White Hills region have unprecedented access to water with the North Esk Scheme now in full swing.

Some 104 jobs will be created across the Murray Darling Basin as a third of the Murray Darling Basin Authority's jobs will now be located in regional areas.

Goondiwindi has secured 20 permanent Government jobs, as the Federal Coalition pushes ahead with decentralisation of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.

Griffith is set to become a winner from the decentralisation of the Murray Darling Basin Authority sharing 48 permanent jobs with another office in Mildura.

​Murray Bridge is set to become a winner from the decentralisation of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority with an extra 12 regional positions coming to the city.​

Mildura will win from the decentralisation of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), with at least 20 jobs coming to the city.

Victorian livestock farmers hit by drought can now claim up to a quarter of cost of putting in more efficient water infrastructure.

More than 2,700 gigalitres of water was delivered for the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin in 2017/18.

Australia's Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards scheme (WELS) saw Australians reduce water use and save more than a billion dollars in 2017.

Murray-Darling Aboriginal communities will soon have more say on how the river system is run with a permanent Indigenous position on the board of the Basin Authority.