Murray Darling Basin Crisis Deepens: Farmers Facing Tough Times

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Lloyd Polkinghorn joins Topher to discuss the Greens and Labor party teaming up to (yet again) screw our irrigators in the Murray Darling Basin. They've gone ahead with plans to use buybacks to extract yet more water out of the productive pool, taking it away from farm environments where it helps with biodiversity and breeding grounds AND helps to grow food and fibre... and they plan to use it in their futile quest to keep the 'mouth of the Murray' open against the might of the Southern Ocean. It's just another body blow in a long list of hard hits that our farmers have had to deal with lately, and coming on top of a looming El Nino this is terrible news for our farmers.
An extract from this video is played during this segment:
https://youtu.be/Jh3tmuGyhlM?feature=shared
Here is Topher's original Murray Darling Basin video from February 2011:
https://youtu.be/NrzTfLmbrJ4?feature=shared

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