Friday 15 October 2010

Oi, Tony! Whatever happened to "No comment until I have appropriate details."


Tony Windsor is turning out to be a very ordinary pollie.
After telling us all he wouldn't comment until he had all the details on legislation, policy or proposals, he's one of the first out the gate talking up water diversion into the Murray-Darling from other regions so that his constituents can fly in the face of the Basin Plan and continue their collective grossly unsustainable use of river and ground water in the face of the Basin Plan proposed guidelines.
No-one in the Northern Rivers is fooled by his clumsy artifice in this hypothetical query; "is it possible to repatriate that water to neutralise the effect of climate change in the Murray-Darling system by bringing water in?"
We all know bl**dy well which river his home ground voters will be opting for - our coastal Clarence River.
The same river which is salt for much of its course to the sea and you can walk across in dry times up where the fresh water flows.
A bloke doesn't have to look to undeveloped countries to find people willing to rape healthy rivers - all he has to do these days is look over the Great Dividing Range!

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