As long as water doesn't flow past Victoria!

Mr. Brumby is the main reason why management of the Murray has to be taken out of State hands.

If Brumby had his way, South Australia would get just enough water to maintian his opion of us as a 'backwater'.

"taking water for essential human needs away from rural communities."

One might well ask, "why then are you hell bent on taking water from the Goulburn, away from the farmers, to give to the city?"

You speak with a forked tongue.

Mr. Brumby was never voted for, ever! Now he has been foisted on us by Bracks resignation.
John Thwaites lost Victorians one million acres of native forest to fire because of his reliance on his green mates and their dopey ideas. Now Brumby is going to stuff the river systems. Give us all a break John and call an election so you can be rejected - again.

Some of you need to cool down a little. Perhaps you would care to offer a solution?

It certainly sounds as though you all would have Australia become a desert before you admit your wrongs (assuming I am making the correct assumptions), by which stage you would deserve a solid thumping and the ruination.

As a West Australian, the Murray is not a huge issue, however one fact is clear. There's only so much water to go around and the true measure of success is at the mouth of the Murray.

There are contiunual attempts convince us that somehow marginal farmland will continue to be viable in the drying climate. This is the worst form of self-delusion. All it does is delay the really hard, and politically unpopular decisions that need to be made about where and how water is best used. And what about measures other than direct water allocation.

I agree that small communities should be supporte. The decline of our rural areas and the consequent need to import more and more food cannot be good for us. So what about changing crops to ones that are more drought-tolerant, changing the basis of our agriculture, having government put serious money into agricultural research with incentives for farmers to change over to crops and practices more in tune with the environment.

Keeping agriculture strong and overcoming the barriers presented by a restricted water supply is essential to the future of this country.

Either Brumby is a twit or being disingenuous.

Reduced rainfall is certainly one factor in the reduced flows in the Murray, particularly downstream in South Australia.

But the absolute waste of water in such water-intensive agribusinesses as rice and cotton cannot be ignored.

So why isn't Brumby taking up the case against Queensland and NSW for their wasteful use of these waters? Maybe Labour mates are more important than the environment or Adelaide