To the Editor,
I have just opened my Goulburn Murray Water (GMW) bill and sit in sheer amazement. I am expected to pay $2469.36 per Delivery Share regardless of how much water I receive. This portion of my bill is to contribute to the maintenance of the water system, which seems fair until you realize that since the introduction of unbundled Water Rights, any person or Corporation or Government official can own or trade water without necessarily paying the historical infrastructure fees on the system from whence the water came. The most amazing thing is that I’m subsidizing the Chinese Government, due to them being one of the largest offshore entitlement holders of Australian water. All this whilst they place tariffs on Australian Produce as it enters China along with making profits on water sales back to the struggling Aussie Farmer.
If you think I’m just another winging Cocky, then think about this – If you are a pensioner self-funded retiree or tax payer the Federal Government has taken $13 000 000 000 dollars of Taxpayer funds to implement this Disaster. The Murray Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) has Contributed to this situation removing a third of the once productive water out of the system, losing millions out of the economy as a result. The ACCC has been complicit, overseeing and allowing this to happen. Remember the dead fish in the Darling river, which is still almost dry today at the end of winter after summer floods in QLD and NSW something wrong? Locally go for a look at the degradation of the Murray River and Gunbower Creek bank erosion at unprecedented levels. As a Cohuna local I watch the best dairy farm area in the world disappearing and seeing the rice industry just across the river going the same way. I believe like the late professor John Brisco this MDBP is a disaster is based on Political Deception and action needs to be taken for the sake of our community.
When injustice becomes Law
Resistance becomes Duty.
Please Raise the Eureka Flag
This is far beyond being unjust.
How much further do we have to go?
Name and address supplied,
Cohuna.
