The Murray- Darling Basin fiasco.

We all know that we live on a very dry continent. Australia without adequate water is a disaster waiting to happen.

Our two party system has once again failed the Nation. In particular, the so called National Party. The current Labor is tryingto correct the situation. An article in this weeks "Saturday Paper" by Mike Seacombe titled "A bridge over troubled water" tells us how the Government is initiating legislation to overcome the anomalies that crept in after 2007 when the then Prime Minister( John Howard) promised to ,once and for all , stop the over allocation of water in the Murray-Darling Basin. He undertook a $10 billion buy back which never prospered because it was bedevilled by political conflict between the States involved and of course the Parties.

Despite some$4 -5 billion dollars being spent (wasted) in the interim we now are legislating a bill "The Water Amendment(Restoring our Rivers) bill 2023. With support of the Greens it appears it will come to fruition. BUT.

Minister Plibersek apparently has said " I don't prefer buybacks to infrastructure...This will be one tool in the box. The others will be water saving and water- efficiency projects". This is seemingly a dodge, because the farmers lobby, is deadset against the Government purchase of water.

Since when has a lobby (even the farmers) had the right to dictate to we , the people, after all it is our water, our rivers and such an important asset as the "Murray- Darling Basin is to the vast majority of the Nation.

Get with it Labor and remember that as the Government, you have to act in the interrests of us all, not just your vested interrest.

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