1,010 Sydney Harbours fall on the Basin every year.

Let that sink in.

And yet only 4% of that water ever reaches our rivers. The rest is lost, leaked, or pinched before it even hits the gauge.

Here’s the part they don’t want you to focus on: the food bowl of Australia only uses 1.5% of all that rainfall. That’s it. One and a half drops out of every hundred to feed the nation.

Instead of fixing a system that wastes 96% of the water, we’re told the answer is buybacks. Junk policy. Rigged from the start. It hollows out our towns, kills jobs, and hands water to corporate mates while family farms are shut down.

If we captured just 1.5% more of the rain that already falls, every drop used for food production would be covered. No buybacks. No town destruction. Problem solved.

So why isn’t that happening?

Because we don’t count each drop properly. Instead of building smart storages like raising Burrinjuck Dam or using Lake Coolah, bureaucrats keep pushing buybacks because it’s easier than fixing the mess.

That’s why I’m calling for a Federal Royal Commission into water. We need the truth under oath. Where the water is going. Who’s benefiting. And why regional communities are paying the price.

Enough junk policy. Enough hollowing out our towns. It’s time to fix the system, not destroy the food bowl of Australia.

Support the call for a Federal Royal Commission into water.