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Murray-Darling Basin water theft laws suck more than river irrigation pumps
Water is one of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog’s most valuable commodities. Rights to take water from our nation’s largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, are worth almost A$100 billion. These rights can be bought and sold or leased, with trade exceeding . But water is also being stolen (no-one knows how much) and the thieves usually get away with it.
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×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog’s least wanted – 8 alien species and diseases we must keep out of our islandÌýhome
This week’s landmark report on the impact ofÌý revealed costs to the global economy exceeded US$423 billion (A$654 billion) a year in 2019. Costs have at leastÌý every decade since 1970 and that trend is set to continue.
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