Full Record

Part I. Australian water resources and water access policy -- 1. Defining water resources in Australia -- 2. Historical development of water access rights and legal models for sharing water resources -- 3. National Water Law Reform Policy -- 4. Objectives and principles of Water Resources Law -- Part II. The constitutional and administrative framework of water resources management -- 5. The constitutional framework of water resource management -- 6. The administrative framework of water resources management -- 7. Interstate arrangements -- Part III. The nature of water access rights -- 8. Common law rights to water -- 9. State declarations of the vesting of rights to property, use, flow and control of water -- 10. The express abolition and statutory displacement of common law rights to water -- 11. Landholder rights: rights exercisable without a license by landholders and others -- 12. Contemporary access entitlements -- 13. Native title and indigenous access to water -- Part IV. Water resources planning -- 14. An overview of the history, purposes and effects of water resources planning -- 15. The water resources planning system -- 16. The content of a plan -- 17. The legal effect of a plan -- Part V. The administration of access entitlements -- 18. Defining entitlements -- 19. Powers and procedures for issuing access entitlements -- 20. The determination of applications -- 21. Rights and obligations conferred by access entitlements -- 22. Variation, suspension and cancellation of entitlements and claims for compensation -- Part VI. Water trading -- 23. The object of and rationale for transferability -- 24. The historic non-transferability of water access rights in Australia -- 25. Contemporary transferability -- Part VII. Conclusion on sharing water resources in Australia -- 26. The Australian model of water access rights -- 27. The mining and petroleum sectors and water access rights