To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives assembled in Parliament.

The following citizens of Australia remind the House that the Murray-Darling Basin faces an environment crisis unless major changes to its management are introduced.

Your petitioners therefore request Parliament to support a referendum to delete Section 100 of the Constitution that gives the states `the reasonable use of the waters of rivers for conservation or irrigation.' In its place a new head of power should be inserted under Section 51 handing control of the basin to the Commonwealth.

AND we, as in duty bound will ever pray.