Third, generate lists of identifying terms for inclusion in an algorithm; for example, ‘School’, ‘City’, ‘Council’ were some of the terms used to assign a name to the category of ‘urban’; ‘Department’ and ‘Minister’ were some of the terms used to assign a name to the category of ‘government’; ‘aboriginal’ and ‘indigenous’ were some of the terms used to assign a name to the category of ‘traditional. [...] The increase in the proportion of irrigators reporting entitlements trade between 2008–09 and 2014–15 coincides with the end of Millennium Drought and the implementation of the government buyback of water entitlements under the Restoring the Balance Programme. [...] Some of these attitudes relate to support or opposition to the idea of water trading in principle, the ease or difficulty of the trading process and the level of confidence people have in water markets and trading rules. [...] Irrigators’ views on the process of water trading and their confidence in water markets In the 2015 and 2016 Regional Wellbeing Surveys, irrigators across the Basin were asked to select to what degree they agreed or disagreed with statements related to different aspects of water trading and water markets, including whether irrigators: found it easy to trade permanent and temporary water and acces. [...] 589 Murray–Darling Basin water markets inquiry – Final report In contrast to the relatively positive views on the ease of trading permanent and temporary water, irrigators express low levels of confidence in the fairness of water markets, water market rules, and the treatment of government owned water entitlements, with only 23% to 32% of irrigators believing that water markets were fair for all u.
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