How can you create real change for the conservation landscape? 

Dr Jonathon Howard, NPA Executive

It is clear that the vast majority of Australians want the government to do more for the environment, but it’s not being delivered. Consider what is happening to our koalas. Or how the Labor government promised to create a new independent environmental regulator but stumbled at the wire. 

Will the Basin Plan save the Darling River?

Bev Smiles, President, Inland Rivers Network

The Murray Darling Basin Plan, gazetted in November 2012, has a budget of $13 billion to fund a new direction for water management and water sharing in one of the world’s largest river basins. It is the most expensive natural resource management project in the nation.