$10 MILLION COMMUNITY GRANT TO CHINESE FRAUD
A $10 million grant meant to help our towns survive the damage of water buybacks has just been handed to the Chinese textile giant that owns Gundaline Station.
The Sustainable Communities Program was set up by the Albanese Government and the Minns Government to soften the blow on Murray-Darling Basin communities that have had their water bought out from under them. It is meant for the towns that have lost their water, their jobs and their young people. Instead, according to The Weekly Times, $10 million of it has gone to the foreign corporation behind one of the most notorious farms in the Riverina.
This is the same Gundaline that workers blew the whistle on, where Aussie workers say they were sacked and replaced with foreign nationals put on heavy machinery with no licences and barely a word of English, where a fuel spill ended up in the irrigation channels and wiped out the fish and where shipping containers turned up from China carrying the bugs and seeds our biosecurity is supposed to stop at the border. It is a farm sitting on more than 16,000 megalitres of our water, bought for $121 million by a company that grows cotton here because it cannot sell its Xinjiang cotton anywhere else.
I made a video a couple of years back exposing this very station. Give it a watch to find out more.
So the government strips the water off our family farms, watches our towns go backwards, sets up a fund to say sorry for it and then hands $10 million of our taxpayer money to the very kind of foreign operator that helped cause the mess. You could not make it up.
This is exactly why I keep calling for a Federal Royal Commission into water. We need the truth under oath about where our water is going, who is profiting and where the money meant for our communities is ending up.