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Cabinet to spend another $50m on Murray-Darling Basin

Source: Lateline
Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:25 AEST
Expires: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:25 AEST

The Federal Government has promised more money to ease the over-allocation of water in the Murray-Darling Basin. It also ordered another check on how much water is in the system to settle the debate of ways of solving the problem.

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