Corporate Body
Murray-Darling Basin Commission (1988 - 2007)
Commonwealth of Australia
- From
- 1 January 1988
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - To
- 2007
- Functions
- Advisory or Regulatory Body, Conservation or Environment and Resources
- Website
- http://www.mdbc.gov.au/
- Reference No
- CA 6971
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Location
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Summary
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission replaced the River Murray Commission in 1988. One of the major problems the Commission has worked on is the high salinity levels in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Related entries
Timeline
1917 - 1988 River Murray Commission
1988 - 2007 Murray-Darling Basin Commission
2007 - Murray-Darling Basin Authority
Participates in
Published resources
Books
- O'Gorman, Emily, Wetlands in a dry land: more-than-human histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2021), 288 pp. https://www.mup.com.au/books/wetlands-in-a-dry-land-paperback-softback. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-519424. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Roy Green', in National Land and Water Resource Audit Australia, Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2000, https://web.archive.org/web/20010303221137/http://www.nlwra.gov.au:80/full/85_contacts/74_advisory_council/_green_roy.html. Details
- 'Primary description of agency CA 6971; Murray-Darling Basin Commission. Registration of entity: 4 August 1989', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%206971. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 14 December 2000, Last modified: 14 November 2017
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