Canberra Times: Australia has failed to meet its global obligations to protect important wetlands across the Murray-Darling Basin, with 90 per cent already lost, a new report says. An environmental group, the Inland Rivers Network, has called for the Rudd Government to amend the 2007 Water Act to create a national wetlands protection program, with explicit laws to prevent water diversion and theft. It wants future federal management plans for the basin to ensure enough water is set aside to …