Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers unite to disallow water capturing licences despite minister already moving to issue them
The New South Wales upper house has for a third time rejected laws to establish flood plain harvesting licences, arguing the state government’s plan would have led to an unsustainable amount of water being taken from the Murray-Darling river system.
Labor, the Greens and some crossbenchers united to disallow the licences on Thursday morning, despite the new water minister, Kevin Anderson, moving preemptively to issue licence determinations on Monday.