Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. The 14,000 hectare expansion of the Ord River irrigation scheme in the Kimberley will start with the next dry season, Western Australian ...

The Chinese-backed company developing agricultural land near Kununurra has warned it may take until next decade to extend the Ord River irrigation scheme across the border into the Northern Territory.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to reveal plans today to expand the Ord River scheme. In Darwin a short time ago, Mr Rudd said he would set up a special economic zone in northern Australia if re ...

But it took another 30 years of research, talking and planning — and serious drought on the Kimberley cattle stations — before the Ord River Project was born in 1959, the town of Kununurra gazetted in ...