Russell Broadbent here, your Federal Member for Monash.
Time and time again, this government puts ideology ahead of common sense.
Rather than continuing to improve water efficiency and reduce water losses, the Government wants to spend billions and billions of dollars to buy water and take it out supply, essentially shelving it and making the remaining water – more expensive.
For context, the Government has recovered 2.6 gigalitres so far, but their goal is to take 450 gigalitres. That’s 18,000 Olympic swimming pools of water!
It’s a ‘feel good’ action with no tangible impact on the environment, but sure enough it’s at the expense of those providing for our nation.
Common sense says that making water less available for farmers, will not only disadvantage Australian farmers, but it will disadvantage Australia as a whole.
It’s basic economics! Understanding that making water more expensive, it will make final goods like fruit, vegetables and meat – more expensive. Cost of food is already crippling everyday Australians, why make it worse?
We expect better from people making decisions on behalf of our nation.
While others engage with the Novel of Nonsense, I am committed to bringing trust, reason and commonsense.
That’s Justice as I see it.
