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Advisory Report Water Amendment (Water for the Environment Special Account) Bill 2012

November 2012

© Commonwealth of Australia 2012

ISBN 978-0-642-79840-4 (Printed version)
ISBN 978-0-642-79841-1 (HTML version)

View the report as a single document - (PDF 699KB)


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Preliminary pages (PDF 226KB)
 
Chapter 1 Water Amendment (Water for the Environment Special Account) Bill 2012 (PDF 249KB)

Intent of the bill
Special accounts
Specified purpose of the Special Account
Infrastructure and constraints-removal projects
Purchasing water access rights
Community concerns
Commonwealth purchase of water access rights
Bridging the water recovery ‘gap’
Socio-economic impacts
Timing of the Bill
Flooding
Mandatory water recovery targets
Committee Comment

 
Appendix A – Submissions (PDF 45KB)
 
Appendix B – Witnesses and hearings (PDF 92KB)
 
Minority report – The Hon Sharman Stone MP and Mr Michael McCormack MP (PDF 98KB)

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