With only a few days left in the 6-week ministerial comment phase, we thought we’d take a look back at the 20-week public consultation, which began on 28 November 2011 and ended on 16 April 2012.
We’ve put together an infographic with some of the more interesting stats.
I have read with interest the various claims that the draft Basin Plan doesn’t take into account climate change. The fact of the matter is, of course, that climate change is factored into the Basin Plan.
Climate scientists are fond of pointing out that it is difficult to see long-term climate change compared to natural variability. [...]
We held a town hall-style public meeting in Swan Hill on 22 February. You can see footage from that day below or head to the MDBA website to read a summary of the meeting [NOTE: Link removed as the content is no longer online].
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Video: The draft Basin Plan – Swan Hill community meeting
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There are less than two weeks left in the draft Basin Plan consultation period. We’ve already received over 3000 submissions – most of which are already online. Have you got yours in yet? There’s still time to make a submission.
Need more info? Have more questions?
There are still a few more meetings left in the consultation [...]
We held a town hall-style public meeting in Griffith on 15 December 2011. You can see footage from that day below or head to the MDBA website to read a summary of the meeting [NOTE: Link removed as the content is no longer online].
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Video: The draft Basin Plan – Griffith community meeting
Following the Queensland meetings in December, we went to [NOTE: Link removed as the content is no longer online] Murray Bridge for both roundtable meetings with community representatives and a public meeting.
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Video: The draft Basin Plan – Murray Bridge community meeting
We’ll be putting up some footage of some of the meetings we’ve held so far during the consultation period. Don’t forget to head over to the MDBA website to read summaries of public meetings [NOTE: Link removed as the content is no longer online] held so far.
First up: highlights from the Queensland community meetings from December [...]