Help save our Basin farmers and communities. Make your voice heard.
The government's own analysis shows more buybacks won't help our rivers, just our farms.
The government's own figures undermine the case for more buybacks.
of high-reliability water Victoria has already handed over, more than any other state.
of Victoria's total water entitlement already recovered under the Basin Plan.
predicted improvement to Victorian rivers from further buybacks, per official modelling.
More buybacks won't help the environment. They'll finish off our communities.
Modern irrigation keeps farms productive, if there's water left to use.
Water recovered from farms is meant to help the environment. The figures say it won't.
Irrigation deliveries in Northern Victoria have roughly halved since the Millennium drought, pushing network costs onto fewer farmers.
Buybacks don't just reduce water. They reduce food production, jobs, and the towns that depend on them.
We're not against a healthy river system. We're against a policy that damages farms and delivers nothing for the environment.
Before the millennium drought
delivered each year for irrigation in the Goulburn–Murray Irrigation District.
Today
Deliveries have fallen sharply, and more buybacks are still proposed.
Add your voice
To the Australian Government
The Basin's farmers and communities need decision-makers to:
- Immediately halt further Commonwealth water buybacks in the Basin.
- Direct funding to irrigation infrastructure and affected regional communities instead.
- Base future water recovery on real environmental evidence, not blanket targets.
Healthy rivers and viable farms shouldn't be a trade-off.
There is very little upside to water buybacks from an environmental point of view.
Andrew Leahy VFF Water Council Chair
Let's make sure Basin communities are heard.
Every voice added makes it harder to ignore what buybacks are doing to our farms and our towns.
