Nationals MP Damian Drum says now that "sentiment in capital cities is moving toward our farmers" rather than the environment, people are starting to think "maybe we've gone too far" on the Murray-Darling Basin. "Yes, we've got healthier river systems, we've got healthier wetlands...
but we've caused so much pain and damage to our farming communities," he said. Mr Drum commended work done by Agriculture Minister David Littleproud to secure a desalination plant deal with South Australia. "It's a fantastic program... ultimately, it's the federal government subsidising this water, meaning $600 a megalitre water will be available for fodder-growers for $100 a megalitre," he said.
Should of stuck to coaching AFL.
Follow the $, foreign corporate Greed, but who has shares in it, Politicians 🤔 ? Seems a lot of politicians getting rich while in politics, all their shares going into family members & places like Cayman Islands tax havens,
Aw Gee Damian Drum, Ya think?
Your voters might be mugs, but we aren't. We know exactly where the water has gone, and who has been profiting from it. Our ineffectual and conflicted media were complicit in it. It took the ABC to expose NSW & federal govt deceit on MDB. Don't worry, we won't forget. auspol
Says the man who campaigned for the MDBP to be fully implemented during his re election campaign
All too little too late. Enjoy your imported just about everything you see on your plate or in your glass 🥂
Oh just piss OFF.
Way too far
Sydney Brisbane Melbourne Hobart Adelaide Perth Canberra Darwin people farmers are being pushed out of the water market due to people trading water who don't own any land The_Nationals sat by any let it happen auspol
Why did it take a protest for you to realise
Same river that has been there since day dot, plenty more now sucking it dry though.
The state and federal Nationals are accountable for the section of river that has been pumped dry and the millions of dead fish. Once again they are trying to obfuscate for their own appalling mismanagement of the river system and dodgy water buybacks from mates and ministers
Nationals are a coal lobby now and the farmers and rural areas are still to stupid voting nationals is voting against themselves
You have to be f'ng kidding me? In no way is that the view. Cities are on the side of farmers where water is being taken from them by large agribusiness corporations or mining interests. But equally, not at the expense of the environment. Nice failed pivot there damiandrummp
Stop selling the water to Chinese cotton growers and let it flow downstream so the farmers can actually use it. No good saying they can have more if there’s none there to start with!
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