BRISBANE, Australia — Water theft and insider trading in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin could be punished by up to five years behind bars under a shake-up of the river system’s rules. Water Minister Keith Pitt on May 26 introduced legislation to federal parliament to hand substantive powers to the basin’s inspector-general almost two years after the role was announced. The mooted “cop […]
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