My name is Peter Gilmour and since 2011 I have been advocating about the disgraceful Murray Darling Basin Plan.
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I am a proud child sexual abuse survivor. My admiration goes to Julia Gillard and her government for announcing the child sexual abuse royal commission, this enabled me to come out about it, seek proper counselling and seek financial redress. My life is drastically improved today.
I have run a, up until this week, small Facebook page - Murray Darling Basin Connection.
This page has been like a boutique page, this week it has smashed its previous records and today has a total post reach of 436,000. I have not paid to boost any posts. So thank you to all the followers for your magnificent support.
I must congratulate all the organisers and participants in the Convoy to Canberra. We were extremely noisy and extremely respectful and tidy, well done.
I could tell you what is bad about the basin plan, but will just say that our rivers and natural environment are being destroyed under the ridiculous plan along with farmers and communities being decimated all so thousands of gigalitres can flow out to the ocean every year.
Most people who don't live in irrigation areas and mainly city people do not comprehend how much clean and safe food the basin irrigation schemes can produce.
A lot of food in containers is now imported and a lot of that comes from China who repackage in other countries and use their names.
China is one of five nations still irrigating with raw human effluent, what we go to the toilet for, and are still using chemicals we banned decades ago.
Our dairy industry is nearly completely obliterated, we have no car industry, irrigation farmers are on their knees and all our politicians and bureaucrats do is blame each other.
I have been at this for eight years and will keep fighting, I would like all of you to as well.
Peter Gilmour, Cobram
Where are the arts?
I note that the recent announcement by the Prime Minister on restructuring the Australian public service does not include any reduction in ministerial numbers. Why not? ("Morrison swings axe in major public service shake-up", The Border Mail, December 6.)
The new department of Agriculture Water and the Environment now will have three ministers, so who will be in charge? The Department of Infrastructure Transport Regional Development and Communication - is this the Deputy Prime Minister's expanded portfolio and what happened to the arts? Supposedly the government has no commitment to the arts?
I think this is an exercise in restricting communication and not about improving service delivery to the population. Bigger is not better.