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Labor has once again failed to deliver on Murray Darling Basin reform, with delays to the release of the proposed Basin Plan creating yet more uncertainty for everyone.  

 
Labor has massively underspent and under-delivered on budgeted water saving infrastructure throughout its term, failing to deliver priority water saving infrastructure programs and failing to meet targets for on-farm efficiency investments.
 
It’s just another page from the Labor Party ‘lack of action’ text book. Despite promising to spend $5.8 billion on water technologies they’ve spent only $300 million. It’s another example of the Labor Party ‘moving forward’ while the forgotten are left behind.
 
Now Labor has failed to deliver the draft basin plan – and the blame lies at Labor's feet.
 
If it hadn’t taken Penny Wong 18 months to appoint the Chair and Members of the Murray Darling Basin Authority the draft Basin Plan could have been released well before the election.
 
The Water Act establishing the MDBA was passed by the former Coalition Government in 2007, yet Penny Wong failed to get the Authority off the ground until May 2009.
 
Because of Labor's lack of action the MDBA has been running late in developing the Basin Plan ever since.
 
Whether people are motivated by securing environmental flows or securing future food production they have a right to be disappointed by Labor’s delays and failures.
 
The Coalition believes that the most important focus must be on getting the plan right to deliver sustainability for both our rivers and our food producers.
 
The independence of the MDBA is central to this.  They should release any advice relied upon to make this decision to delay and they, along with Penny Wong, should guarantee that there was no political interference in the decision.
 
 

 

 

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# Lorikeet
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:28 PM
Oh well, I think we know how it works. The longer it takes Labor to get anything done, the more farmers they can get off the land at Mates Rates for their corporate buddies.

The longer they let our schools and hospitals run down, the more Labor can push for corporatisation, CO-PAYMENTS AND SCHOOL FEES.

The more they deliberately annoy our hospital nurses with a shoddy pay system that we are told WILLTAKE 12 MONTHS TO FIX!, the sooner they can bring in cheap foreign labour to replace nurses who have left in disgust, or had nervous breakdowns after losing their homes.

I'm sure if Labor/Greens could, they would borrow the Icelandic Volcano and incite it to do quite a bit of puffing and wheezing 3 weeks out from the federal election. I'm sure the fear and guillt associated with threatened extinction would coerce thousands of people to vote for those from the Green Corporate Neo-Communist Left.
# Lorikeet
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:49 PM
Now here's a good comment made by Joe Hockey on tonight's news. It might not be word perfect, but the meaning is still there.

"Wayne Swan is to services what Paris Hilton is to celibacy. They both know what it is but cannot return there."
# Simon Larrescy
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:32 PM
Barnaby, its been put in the too hard basket, what do you reckon? 30 years of neglect, must be to much work involved. What's wrong with Precision Agriculture, Catchment Management Co-Operatives! To much for Hippies(Watermelons) to comprehend.
# Lorikeet
Saturday, July 24, 2010 7:31 AM
Now here's an interesting development in the Bowen district.

On Stateline last night on the ABC, we were told there used to be 120 growers, but now there are only 20.

Then the reporter said that someone had poisoned tomato seedlings. Now the police are sniffing around trying to locate the saboteur.

It seems to me that some people will stop at nothing in their attempts to remove farmers from their land, in order to satisfy their enormous appetite for money.


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