Too much water is being extracted from Darling Barwon rivers in northern NSW, Politics in the Pub was told.

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Updated September 13 2019 - 12:07pm, first published 12:00pm
Professor Quentin Grafton speaking to the Politics in the Pub audience at the Central Hotel on Monday night..
Professor Quentin Grafton speaking to the Politics in the Pub audience at the Central Hotel on Monday night..
Professor Quentin Grafton, ANU
Professor Quentin Grafton, ANU

Huge extraction of water from the Darling River in northern NSW, and not the current drought, is the main reason for the "appalling catastrophe" that has befallen the Murray Darling Basin, according to an ANU economist who spoke in Cootamundra on Monday.

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Tom Gosling

Journalist, Cootamundra Herald

I've had a long career in journalism and corporate communications, starting with country newspapers, radio and TV in northern NSW and including ABC News Sydney and the Melbourne Herald. I edited The University of Sydney News for 10 years, and was Media Officer for CSIRO in Canberra and BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla.

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