Don't blame the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It's climate and economic change driving farmers out
- Written by Sarah Ann Wheeler, Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide
For the thousand or so farmers in Canberra in the past week venting their anger at the federal government, it’s the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to blame for destroying their livelihoods and forcing them off the land.
We can’t comment directly on their claims about the basin plan. But our research, looking at the years 1991 to 2011,...
