Irrigators and local graziers have had their say on water buybacks today (Thursday 9 October) in Narrabri as a government inquiry hearing on the policy heads to Bourke.
Buybacks are where the governments purchase water entitlements from growers to reduce the volume extracted from the river.
Macquarie Marshes graziers Garry Hall and Dugald Bucknell were among those who fronted a committee of state politicians in Narrabri, along with Namoi Water’s Mick Coffey, who represents irrigators in the Namoi Valley…