The people in the Murray Darling Irrigation areas are no dumber than the rest of Australia --yet they get treated so by the cynical shells of men like David Maher. Barry Cassidy too, like most journos, is running around when he should sit still for awhile . Its Scoop mode ( Evelyn Waugh)-- chasing the noise but missing the scoop right before his very eyes . His panel would never see that Tony Burke is out of his depth on water issues resorting to completely offbeat catchphrases like algal blooms and acid sulphate soils ( Sure they exist - but only in great proportions in the panic minds of the easily led and the many bureaubrats hanging on in the service through the drip feed )
For the Burkes of this world, there is always another disaster to draw attention to - next week it will be the floods . Barry - worry when a politician smiles at you . It means he's leading and you are following !
Its all very well for city people and the ignorant on ABC Insiders to patronise , ( Maher in particular) but none who got past kindergarten in complex ecological study would come out with these clangers on the Murray Darling Plan ( the italics are the big picture plan conservation constraints)
- "the plants will adjust" ( green spokesman ) basic physiology means plants need a fixed amount of water it you starve plants they will weigh less and more farmers will give them away at below cost price( cauliflowers of late) as they do so often. Trust the greens to think that one fact will make them experts in ecological matters.
-"Over allocation" is not a dirty word . the whole focus on numbers (overallocation ) by polys and the media is understandable- they want to make what's complex simple.
--the whole focus on numbers by polys and the media is understandable- they want to make what's complex simple .
You ask the farmer to live by a number. How about you hold the crap artists in government for a number -- what is an environmental flow ---go on , ask the river health people
- why does Michael Taylor's crew have to spend another few years trying to make sense - don't they know what they are doing?; after all , who else would send people broke over water conservation when OVER allocations is ONLY applicable as a proportion of the supply system .
And if we have to do this to save the river - who cares; the people of austarial( according to the polys ) want the river to be saved .You can't have it both ways . Make up your mind - if you only half do the job you might as well do nothing . Overallocation allows you to store and be a conservationist to do it when there lots around - its true conservation.
The meddling by the river worriers will only ever add a little el to the largely ecologically irrelevant mid peak flows ( in a dry land ) Any who ever studied water conservation on land knows that the seed is specifically placed to grow at the edges of the resilience cycle - not in the mish mash middle where more water would do nothing for the life of the riverine system
-- Burke wants to spend our taxes to try and stop farmers from using water when its there . If he keeps cutting allocations the storage of the current flood water would be forbotten . The dumb focus on overallocation ignores that fact that States have always reviewed how much water a land holder can get in a dry period - Tony Burke is trying to riding a camel in a world that can sometime best support buffalo. The dummmy thinks that its cost effective to lower exepecetations by lowering a few estimates . The people who he takes seriously are more accountant like than ecology accountable
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Readers will note that I posted this prophetic piece on the 18th October . True to form Burke on ABCradio and in parliament today 25th says absolutely nothing about the issues and site mentioned on the ground. Burke must name the sites of degradation or lose credibility completely - after all His MDA will have to name the sites and status of the people affected by Greenlabors venture into worshipful places where sensible wear gumboot and bullsh protection. The biggest locust plaque( he also threw in ) will only arrive if there is noone left in the States able to do there job without dumb pollies (like him )interfering.
Where are he locusts now the election is over? drowning in a media frenzy over flood damage . Farmers do not need patronising in regard to environmental threats . The greatest threat to their sanity is the patronising bullsh of the press and the dumb reactionary support of free market politics ( such simple talk and action is not in any farmers interest )
One of the best suggestions on qanda last night was that greenlabor (http://greenlabor.blogspot.com) were being run by a city based consensus who have no deep understanding of the environment but insist, in political terms, on having their will imposed on it .
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