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	Podcast:		Background Briefing - ABC RN
	Episode:		Best laid plans (Part 1)
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:39:18
	Publish Date:		2018-04-28 17:05:00
	Description:		Update: This story is subject to an editorial complaint. Please refer to this statement: https://about.abc.net.au/complaints/background-briefing-29-april-6-may-2018-abc-news-facebook-26-april-2018/. Australia is halfway into the most expensive environmental program ever mounted—the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. We've spent more than $8 billion trying to ensure the future of this crucial river system, but the plan is at risk of failing. Over two episodes, reporter Sarah Dingle investigates serious allegations that the money spent has been for very little environmental gain. The incoming South Australian Minister for the Environment and Water, David Speirs, said he did not know his department was preparing to reset the limits of acceptable change in the Coorong and allow up to 80 per cent of species to die, until Background Briefing's investigation. The minister said an 80 per cent death rate was not acceptable and that he would get funding for the science to sustain the Coorong.
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