YOU ALL KEEP VOTING THEM IN. I VOTED ALL MY LIFE FOR LABOUR UNTIL, I WAS FED UP WITH THE GOVERNMENT HELPING THE WORLD BUT NOT AUSTRALIANS. VOTE PAULINE HANSON, LETS HELP HER BRING BACK SOME COMMON SENSE IN OUR COUNTRY, WE MUST MAKE SOME THINGS HERE, BUT ALL TRADE MUST BE FAIR TRADE AND RECIPROCAL. ITS THE ONLY WAY THINGS WILL GET BETTER ACROSS THE WORLD. MAGA
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And 90% foreign owned Virgin 40% chinese airlines gets a holiday on airport, airservies n other charges! Do we or farmers get a holiday on council rates, water rates, power , rego etc etc?!?! Littleproud has again shown he n his cronies have Very little to be proud of..
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Malcolm, Restore the 1900 Constitution to give Australia back to Australians. You are aware of this, Rod Culleton told you so and it's why he was removed as an Senator for One Nation. Do your job Malcolm.
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Royal Commission! Holiday on farmers water n power charges! If its ok for foreign Virgin? Goose n gander!
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Malcolm,I applaud you and your every spoken word . You are one of the few who speak truths to the UN.We really are in the last days,I don't see us turning it around.There are too many programmed and played people .What makes you special is your even tone as you express your argument,you do well not to express anger ,at least in public.Do have security concern considering the people your pushing against have made an oath to bring this agenda into operation and it looks very soon.
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Water must be defined as a National Resource, not for trading by speculators.
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The government just sold the biggest sheep station in WA on the 8th of March it was finalized I guess that gonna be part of the belt and road
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I wish I could say I'm surprised but unfortunately it is not the case. Distraction popular politics has taken too much attention from the basic needs of our nation. Production and manufacturing must take precedence. Throwing around words like "Sovereignty" is pointless and to describe it with a derogative saying "Its as useful as a fart in the wind" Our sovereignty is found wanting by the lack of ability to show it through years and generations of legislative degenerative governance motivated by party self preservation. Australia is waking up and I hope government is ready for change because it is coming. Once the dust settles from covid. Political parties better get ready for change because this nation is expecting it.
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Malcolm Roberts
PRESS RELEASE
MURRAY DARLING BASIN INVESTIGATION A WHITEWASH
One Nation Senator Roberts expressed sheer disbelief and disappointment with the Keelty report into the Murray Darling Basin’s water allocations to farmers who need water to grow food.
Senator Roberts said, “As the nation reels from COVID-19 and faces food shortages this report is woefully inadequate and a tragic waste of taxpayers’ money. “
“An investigation should demonstrate rigour and analysis and instead Mr Keelty’s report is full of inadequacies.”
The report fails to include in its datasets this year’s substantial rainfall event and does not acknowledge rainfall within the MDB has increased over the past 100 years. Instead the Keelty analysis deceitfully uses ‘declining inflows’ as a way of arguing why farmers should be denied a fair allocation of water.
When 4000 disenchanted farmers descended on Canberra to protest the unfair allocation of water between the environment and farmers, they were promised that their zero allocations would be the subject of this review.
“It is deeply disappointing, particularly now when our agricultural productive capacity is under-utilised, that this issue was not rigorously examined by Mr Keelty. Astonishingly the report fails to even mention those zero allocations,” added Senator Roberts.
As predicted by many farmers, the former Water Minister David Littleproud used the promise of an investigation into the MDB to quieten the crowd of protestors and conveniently shift blame to the States and irrigators.
Irrigators are suspicious of MDBA figures that show declining inflows when the Murray River has been running so high that environmental damage has resulted along the upper Murray and Barmah/Millewa forest from excessive water.
Disturbingly the report claims that environmental water is not being wasted, ignoring the unnecessary flooding of forests, excess water flushed out to sea in South Australia and keeping the lower lakes filled above their natural levels with Murray River water.
“The report may as well have been written by the MDBA itself, as it addresses none of the concerns from farmers, some of which have gone without a water allocation for 3 years.”
COVID-19 has highlighted the critical importance of Australia restoring our productive capacity across many strategic industries, including our agricultural sector.
“The Keelty report’s lack of due diligence in this investigation is akin to the last nail in the coffin of one of Australia’s most substantial food bowls. No water, no food,” Senator Roberts added.
Unsurprisingly, the report found that a lack of trust and leadership worsened the problems. One Nation calls for a Royal Commission into misconduct in the implementation of the Murray Darling Basin Plan. “Trust cannot be restored until rorting has been exposed and fixed. Australia needs management of the MDB Plan that reflects a genuine triple benefit – for irrigators, communities and the environment,” Senator Roberts stated.
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