946 406 https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/946/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/946/20260225-NIC-Submission-IGWC-Review.pdf 2026-02-25 06:25:00 909 406 https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/909/Food-security-submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/909/NIC-submission-Feeding-Australian-Discussion-Paper-September-25-FINAL.pdf 2025-09-26 08:14:44 892 415
Our key recommendation: "The Independent Panel take a broad view to examine the policy settings and decision-making on the use of WESA funds to achieve enhanced environmental outcomes with consideration of socio-economic impact - to ensure WESA can be used transparently to target priority environmental investments. We encourage you to explore the option to amend the WESA to ensure it can be used transparently to target priority environmental investments such as community-supported constraints measures and investment in non-flow complementary measures as evidence within the 2025 Basin Plan Evaluation and Sustainable Rivers Audit."

Thank you to our members who have contributed to this piece of work, and taking the time to provide feedback. 
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The Toolkit was a multi-pronged solution developed through the Northern Basin Review to recommit government to existing requirements (Bridging the Gap requirements), fund a series of investments over-and-above the Murray Darling Basin Plan assumptions and existing levers of just adding water, enhance environmental outcomes and minimise socio-economic impacts.  The Toolkit was the Government's initial investment into complementary measures. 

As with many of the Murray Darling Basin Plan elements, it has lacked transparency and accountability, which should be improved in future program development.  The Toolkit highlights a number of great outcomes when investment is provided to optimising environmental water delivery and environmental outcomes. ]]> https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/809/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/809/NIC-Submission-IGWC-Nothern-Toolkit-Inquiry-Nov-2024.pdf 2024-11-29 04:55:00 808 406

• Water Markets Decisions Regulations - Discussion Paper
• Water markets pre-trade data obligations for data providers - Policy Proposal Paper

Overall, NIC is increasingly concerned by the regulatory burden of this reform, and that it's going too far - disproportionate to the problem at hand, and the size and extent of water markets.

We are developing a strategic plan for how we approach this ongoing issue, which has a number of steps still to be implemented - stay tuned. ]]> https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/808/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/808/NIC-Submission-Water-Market-Reforms-Decisions-and-Pre-trade-Nov-2024.pdf 2024-11-29 04:02:00 778 406 https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/778/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/778/NIC-Submission-EPBC-Listings.pdf 2024-10-15 09:25:00 776 406
The original National Water Initiative (NWI) set the blueprint for water reform in Australia over the past two decades and is a fundamental underpinning of Australia’s water management. It is a document that needs to be taken seriously by all stakeholders and jurisdictions, and its content upheld to be a first-class and best-practice approach to water management. [...]]]> https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/776/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/776/NIC-Submission-NWA-Phase-3-Principles-FINAL.pdf 2024-09-20 03:42:00 775 406 https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/775/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/775/20240510_NIC-submission-DCCEEW-Disscussion-Paper.pdf 2024-05-10 11:24:00 779 406 https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/779/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/779/240304_NIC-Submission-Draft-450GL-Framework.pdf 2024-03-04 09:27:00 780 406 https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/780/Submission.png file https://www.irrigators.org.au/media/website_posts/780/240222_NIC-submission-PC-NWI-Inquiry.pdf 2024-02-22 09:30:00