NATIONAL IRRIGATORS’ COUNCIL

POLICY PORTFOLIO - ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AND INDUSTRY SUTAINABILITY

Advocating for the Australian irrigated agriculture industry

Australian irrigators are among the most efficient in the world and this has been achieved through locally driven innovation and investment in research and development.

Not all water in our rivers, our creeks and our groundwater aquifers is available for irrigation use. All water users must strive to ensure they are as efficient and effective with their water, to ensure that as Australian's we are ensuring the upmost value of this precious resource. For this to occur, partnerships between landowners, water users, governments (local, state and federal), and first nations people will be required.

KEY MESSAGES

The National Irrigators' Council wants to see healthy rivers and wetlands because we are locals too and we strive to ensure we make every of drop water count on our farms, for our communities and the environment.

As we have become more efficient, so must environmental water holders, and we support value adding on environmental water through further government investment in complementary measures to deliver direct environmental benefit.

Policy Position Statements

Water Shepherding

Policy position statement is under review

M&E of Environmental Water

Policy Position statement is under review

Recent NIC Documents Related to Environmental Stewardship and Industry Sustainability

EPBC Listings

15 Oct '24

National Irrigators' Council is concerned that these proposed listings are being rushed prior to the Federal election (reminiscent of a previous disallowed attempt prior to the 2013 election) and that little additional work since 2013 has been provided to support the nomination despite significant improvements and other measures being taken since that previous attempt (namely the implementation of the Murray Darling Basin Plan and evolution of environmental water management in these specific regions). [...]

Irrigators warn the Federal Government is on a power grab before the election

30 Sep '24

The Federal Government is again being called out for rushing through risky and untested reforms that seek to gain more power for themselves, prior to the upcoming election. Consultation soon closes on their recent grab, to list two new areas as “endangered” under national environment law, replicating a controversial and subsequently, disallowed move by the former Labor Government in 2013. [...]

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