NSW: States should fall in line with national approach: Rudd

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2007
NSW: States should fall in line with national approach: Rudd

By Alyssa Braithwaite

SYDNEY, Feb 22 AAP - Australians want a national approach to the future of the Murray-Darling,
and state premiers should work together to achieve a good outcome, federal Opposition
Leader Kevin Rudd says.

The premiers of NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and the chief minister of
the ACT are to meet Prime Minister John Howard to discuss the issue tomorrow.

NSW Premier Morris Iemma today said he would sign an agreement ceding his state's powers
of the Murray-Darling to the Commonwealth, but most of …