Burke,Wong and Flannery have floated down the Murray Darling channel and missed the point. Regenerating the riparian and the lower lacustrian lakes takes floods that only God can produce.
There are very few wetlands in flat old Australia and nearly all have to die to live ;because of the patchiness of flood flows and the intense evaporation and the salinity that results.
Both the perennial and annual life phases are more dependant on the bedload the silt deposits of giant floods and deflation processes of dead salt pans than they are on the presence of water on the surface.
The mere explorer doesn't really understand nature. They miss the point of droughts and flooding rains in a wide brown land -its meant to be dry for most of the time . Libs can be just as bad, asking around their consultants and failing to support people in the bush who like Iain Ellis know their stuff and don't expect dollars to share knowledge /learn from others in field freely .The Libs don't deserve government either because they don't effectively support the potential efficiency an effectiveness of the public service( see Net flixes LINE of DUTY) .
Like the dumb and blinkered accountants that mere polys can be , they only see numbers (ML) and not the soil, silt ,seed and dry and dusty circumstances required for life to go on . Red gums , for example only regenerate easily in silt deposits. How many of our leaders move where angels fear to tread . How often are they like dumb and blinkered ideologues who huddle and cower to Green pressure on the crossbench -on the left , Many of our leading non thinkers with blinkers simply haven't realized that none of those terrible dams which we have created ( and they want us to use - hypocrites) have taps big enough to do anything but piddle and fiddle . Takes one to know one when it comes to denial ?what do you want design with nature or do nothing?
Don't they realize that to even have their favoured, highly flavored ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS - you need DAMS -really really big dams and even they ( like Minindee lakes ) are not big enough .No they do not know - but they expect us to give them more money so they can learn what they don't know -- No -- feed these people .
Burke , Wong and Bandt think themselves great explorers and innovators in the theory of what others don't know or what others have not yet done . They specialize like Greenlabor in Virtue signaling and finding fault with others . They proclaim a new form of righteousness that is entirely their own ; pity they are ignorant and wrong. Capitalizing on emotion not ecology
Having fixed their minds . like the Greens and most reactionaries on what we have supposed to have not done in the country, they see that we have interfered in nature ( we have but not always without care ) and are determined to right the wrongs of others - at our expense. Be reasonable if they were trained in careful surgery but they are NOT .
Even though we have spent more than Trump wants to spend on his wall ( his idea of a sword ?) on the Darling ( Murray ), many are not happy . these never happies ? HEC's
This of course is quite predictable to those of us who have worked the earth at ground level , The politicians think they can do the impossible. We know what' s possible .
These well intention'd ones can spend another 13 billion and it still won't work .-- if they don't change whom they listen to and the logic that drives their actions .
The Premier of NSW can go on about how " he never heard" about the need to monitor more in the bush but the reality is the polys spent the budget visiting the problem and not in fact dealing with it .
Guilty as charged ....time for confession high priests . And don't do what Dan Andrews- the iron ruler who fixes every problem with more police - water meter police
ACTION
Put more Iain Ellis's on the ground. ( ref fish kills)
Recognise
- That the riparian and desert lake zone zone and our awfully old and flat country needs something that our mere reservoirs cannot provide AND Water that gets even half way down our modest hills will find itself quickly evaporating in the sun. Life in such lakes is always precarious and we respect nature by recognising that its naturally shallow and needs naturally big flood flows to live . Prosecute offenders but ditch the pitch from the kindergarten right that "water price control wise use"
- That we live in the Savannah where things have to die to live -
- We do not live in the Garden of Eden even though some Greens still want to rewrite the story and live in dream land .
