Dead in the water. A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe … the death of the Murray-Darling Basin

Dent, David W.

doi:10.1080/00207233.2021.1941679

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“…In response to this backlash, the proposed Basin Plan was refocused to account for social and economic outcomes alongside environmental outcomes, and the chair of the MDBA, Michael Taylor, subsequently resigned. 86 The initial agrarian backlash against the Basin Plan, which was representative of widespread discontent in irrigation dependent communities, has not subsided. In 2019, for example, during a "Can The Plan" convoy that saw 2,000 farmers descend on Parliament House in Canberra, a sign held behind Nationals MP and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack read "A terrorist couldn't do a better job of destroying our Rural Communities & Nation's Food Bowl -Can The Plan".…”

Section: The 1992 Ndpmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Polanyian Perspective on the Conflict Between Neoliberal Economics and Countrymindedness in Australian Drought and Water Policy

Robertson

Habib

2023

Aus J of Politics History

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This article evaluates the successes and failures of Australian drought and water policy reforms. By analysing the influence of the ideas central to neoliberal economics and countrymindedness on the development and implementation of the National Drought Policy and the Murray Darling Basin Plan, we illustrate that drought and water policy reforms in Australia can be explained in the context of Karl Polanyi's double movement theory. We demonstrate that founding Australia's agricultural policy on economic assumptions is unlikely to be well‐received in a nation that exhibits widespread sympathy for the plight of agricultural producers. As such, we postulate that neoliberal agricultural policies that ignore the relevant social and historical context will be unpopular and vulnerable to a countermovement that undermines the intent and hinders the implementation of the policy.

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Section: The 1992 Ndpmentioning

confidence: 99%