In a region that grows a quarter of the nation's fruit and vegetables, farmers are worried a new national water policy will grind future investment to a halt and put water security at risk.
Judy Plath says the proposed agreement overlookes the importance of key stakeholders. Irrigators in the Bundaberg region are urging the next state government to reject the federal government's proposed new National Water Agreement .
A 2021 review of the existing NWI also found it left Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples out of the national conversation on water and was not aligned with Closing The Gap targets. "At the end of the day, irrigators and farmers are the ones using water right now and we need to have confidence that our water rights are secure and will remain secure under this new water agreement."
"The last version we saw is still very high level and aspirational and moves away from the ground-up foundational document that we got in 2004, that took 10 years to develop," she said.
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