Thursday, 29/11/2012
The High Court will today hear from an irrigators' group attempting to have the Murray-Darling Basin plan declared unconstitutional.
Murray Valley United represents about 500 irrigators from Victoria, NSW and South Australia.
At a directions hearing in Canberra today, the group's legal team will argue the Water Act, which underpins the Basin Plan, breaches their constitutional rights.
Murray Valley United president Greg Milner says the legal fight has the potential to derail the entire Murray-Darling process.
"Doesn't matter what they do in the parliament, the constitution overrides any laws or regulations that are made in the parliament, and they can make what laws they like," he said.
"If it's deemed to be that we are right, then all the laws that they do are, will be invalid."
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