Need to tread carefully
The organisers of the Can the Plan convoy on December 2 have me worried.
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I hope they have a full understanding of the issues surrounding the Murray Darling Basin Plan and have fully considered the consequences of their request. What's the old saying ... "Be careful what you ask for."
While we have had a number of years of Coalition governments, both at the state and federal levels, this will change at some point in the future.
If the plan is scrapped entirely, as the legal environment now stands, the Greens party will have the power to force the Labor party to take more water from farmers for the environment. Right now, an extra 450Gl can be taken, but hopefully that water will be taken from changes to the Southern Lake's management. If the organisers of the Can the Plan rally want to benefit this region, and I am sure that they do, I strongly suggest they recognise what threat Labor and the Greens are to this region without the plan.
I also strongly suggest they work desperately hard between now and December 2 to have a signed commitment from the leader of the Labor party and Greens party at the event stating that they will not take one more drop of water from the Murray Darling Basin for the environment.
With such an agreement in place, I'm sure there will be more traction on getting rid of the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen.
Greg Adamson, Griffith
Our deepest thanks
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