$20m WASTE
The Albanese Government spent 20 million dollars of your money on an ad campaign telling you to take off your roof racks.
Let me tell you what 20 million dollars actually looks like out here.
At today's regional diesel price of two dollars forty a litre, 20 million dollars buys 8.3 million litres of diesel, the fuel our farmers can't afford to put in their headers at harvest. The same money would build 28 new mobile phone towers across Farrer and Riverina, enough to fix nearly every black spot in the region. And that 20 million is 60 percent of what the Robodebt Royal Commission cost to run, which means it would kickstart the Federal Royal Commission into water that Canberra keeps refusing to call, with hearings in Menindee, Mildura, Griffith and every Basin town in between.
But no, we get an ad telling us to take our roof racks off.
This is what happens when the people running the country have never set foot west of the Blue Mountains. They can find 20 million dollars to lecture drivers about tyre pressure, but they cannot find the backbone to call a Federal Royal Commission into the water policy that is kneecapping every farming family on the Murray.
Water buybacks are dismantling the food bowl. Towns are being hollowed out. And the Federal Government's priority is a finger-wagging ad campaign.
Support the call for a Federal Royal Commission into water.
