AUSTRALIAN FOOD SECURITY SOLD
Australian food security has just been sold off for $430 million of our taxpayer dollars, and the government paid close to double what the water was even worth to do it.
Murray Watt has pulled almost 86 billion litres of water, close to a tenth of everything the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area uses to grow food in a year, off our farms and sent it hundreds of kilometres downstream to be flushed out to sea propping up South Australia's manmade lakes. They are doing it with their eyes shut, 13 years into a plan that has failed, with the science against them and their own reviews not even finished, yet the buybacks keep coming.
The maths here is not complicated. Less water in the system and prices like these make every drop dearer, dearer water makes the food we grow dearer, then that lands as a higher price on every single item in your trolley.
The inner-city politicians who signed this off and the voters cheering them on will not understand what they have done until the day their own grocery bill goes through the roof and the only fresh produce left on the shelf is shipped in from China. By then it is too late to undo.
We are not powerless and we do not have to wait for that day. We know exactly what is being done to our water and our food and the only way to stop it is to make so much noise the city can no longer ignore us. If you do not want it to get to the point that our shelves are filled with only Chinese produce and our country towns have been fully destroyed, share this post to your feed, comment on it and give it a like, because every share pushes it in front of more of the people who need to see it. One town on its own gets ignored, a whole country standing together under one voice is too big to ignore.
That is why I am calling for a Federal Royal Commission into water.
