About 10 minutes after they left for the pool, my daughter called me to say they weren’t allowed in WAVES as it was booked out by a school, and that the splash park was still available but they were too old to use this area. They were told to “go to the Leisure Centre or the Albury pool”.

Who wants to go to a heated pool in summer? Scrap the Leisure Centre. So the girls called my friend who thankfully had not arrived home yet, and she took them to the Albury pool which also had a school there, but they were allowed in.

Am I wrong in thinking this is absolute rubbish? How can they deny access to a public swimming pool?

I ended up calling Wodonga Council and spoke to a lovely lady on reception who totally agreed with my views. Even she said, “It’s a public pool for goodness sake!”. She took my name and contact number and said she would have someone from recreations call me. I am yet to get a call back. It’s a public pool ... would they deny access if it was 40 degrees?

They are quick to take our money for entry. Even when you aren’t swimming it costs to watch your child in the pool, yet when kids want to go for a swim as they have finished school, ‘no sorry suffer in the heat as a school has booked the pool out’.

Not happy at all. None of us are. Especially the girls.

ABC Riverina reported that the government is thinking or has plans to put a regulator on Yanco Creek, to control the water flows from the Murrumbidgee River to Yanco Creek – a lifeline to farmers, birds, fish, and platypus – a distance of 800km to the township of Jerilderie that relies on the creek.

It has been reported that the river has been running high and water that overflows is damaging wetland, over watering the gum forest and killing fish.

The Murray Darling Basin Plan has a lot to answer for. The federal government, politicians on both sides of the fence and representatives who attend meetings are unable to answer the questions that concern the people who attended.

Let us not forget environment minister Tony Burke, who came to the Yoogali Club in November 2012 and tried to answer questions and had a debate with Father Grace.

Fr Grace asked, “We both went to university together and we chose different paths, why are you with MDBP destroying farming families?”

Opposition Liberal leader Tony Abbott, attending the meeting, said “if it is a bad plan we will not support the plan”.

Water is the lifeline of communities, and farmers are the backbone of the country. With irrigation, crops such as rice can be produced but with dust, nothing grows, and the dams were built to drought-proof the country.

Meanwhile, on December 6 the Hume Dam was at 40 per cent and Burrinjuck Dam at 42 per cent. On December 7, Dartmouth Dam was sitting at 73.2 per cent and Blowering Dam at 49.6 per cent.