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Water bird numbers down 70% in the Murray-Darling Basin over ~30 years (1 Viewer)

The whole shebang in this country is just rotten to the core .....

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Floodplain harvesting hearings heat up

Floodplain harvesting legality back in the spotlight with new advice released to inquiry.
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<However, Ms Slattery argued that if changes were allowed to be made based on "best available information" it led to a situation where models and therefore extraction limits could be updated "at a whim, anytime ... with zero accountability, zero transparency and outside the parliamentary process.">

<Emails from DPIE principal modeller Andrew Brown, uncovered in a call for papers in the NSW Upper House by Greens MP and inquiry chair, Cate Faehrmann, appear to support claims that models have been altered without accountability.

"...senior modellers would use their best judgement to make model refinements and small calibrations to fix issues ... typically without a lot of effort being applied to recording in detail where that info came from and a lot of specifics about why they were changing things," said one email written by Mr Brown on June 3, 2019.

In another email, on July 7, 2018, Mr Brown wrote "MDBA is desperately afraid of the media coverage when it becomes apparent that the number for BDL has gone substantially up".>

<Ms Faehrmann said the emails "appear to support the allegations we heard on Monday that departmental officials are using 'black box' modelling as a backdoor to legitimise the enormous increase in floodplain harvesting since 1994".>



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