New water minister commits to extra 450 gigalitres for Murray-Darling

By Michael Koziol
Updated December 27 2017 - 9:48am, first published December 21 2017 - 10:17pm
The Age
News
26/01/2012
photo Justin McManus.
On the Murray
Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers at Wentworth.
Darling river bottom right(Tuckers Creek joins the Darling just before the junction) with the Murray River coming in from the bottom left of the picture.
The Age News 26/01/2012 photo Justin McManus. On the Murray Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers at Wentworth. Darling river bottom right(Tuckers Creek joins the Darling just before the junction) with the Murray River coming in from the bottom left of the picture.
FILE PHOTO: Nationals MP David Littleproud has a beer with Nationals candidate for New England, Barnaby Joyce, at the Aero Club in Tamworth, the evening before the New England by-election, on Friday 1 December 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
FILE PHOTO: Nationals MP David Littleproud has a beer with Nationals candidate for New England, Barnaby Joyce, at the Aero Club in Tamworth, the evening before the New England by-election, on Friday 1 December 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Australia's new Agriculture Minister, David Littleproud, says he's committed to a controversial addition of 450 gigalitres of water to the Murray-Darling, casting aside doubts about the plan strewn by his predecessor Barnaby Joyce.

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