00:00In 2010, a fake horse head was hurled at then Murray-Darling Basin Authority Chair Mike Taylor during a community
00:08meeting near Griffith.
00:10Fast forward 16 years and tensions are still running high, as the first major review of the Murray-Darling Basin
00:19plant is underway.
00:20Following the release of a discussion paper, more than 2,400 submissions were received from farmers, businesses, local councils, MPs
00:33and other stakeholders across the country.
00:36Farmers raised issues ranging from inflated water prices and low allocations to water quality, river constraints and a lack of
00:46environmental outcomes the plan set out to achieve.
00:49Meanwhile, communities warned of the impacts water reform had had on their economies, businesses, schools and even their local footy
00:59teams.
01:00Current MDBA Chair Andrew McConville admitted that agriculture had been left out of the initial discussion papers.
01:08The authority is set to lodge its review with the government by the end of the year, and this time
01:15around, farmers and rural communities just hope that their voices are heard and agriculture and the environment can have a
01:25sustainable future.
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