Shadow Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has called on the government to take immediate drought action, saying “our landscapes are burning, our towns are running out of water and our farmers aren’t getting the assistance they need and deserve”.
His comments come after NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro called for the quick construction of new dams as the country battled devastating conditions and a depleted water supply. Mr Fitzgibbon said the drought conditions were “approaching calamity” and accused the government of having “no strategy or response”. “People just want this government to act, and in six years it’s failed to do that,” he said.
If only he'd given this advice to one of his own during the ill-fated Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years there would now be a dam in the Mary Valley in Qld, but alas the then Environment Minister drew a line through it, much like the Goss Qld Govt did for a dam in SE Qld in the late '80s.
This government couldnt run a choko vine over a shithouse.
Thats fine but he has to support the Govt as Labor and Greens block them every time
fitzhunter Mate get your mates the Greens on side go to the PM with a plan and get it done. Talk to Barnaby_Joyce he is the only one from the Nats that understands. Untill the Greens get with this world it will never happen.
Only problem with this is Federal Government doesn’t build dams the States are the ones who build them.
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