Nationals build a rort too far over the Murray-Darling
Imagine a rort so bad even the Morrison government didn t like it. That s what the Nationals tried on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan this week.
Resource Minister Keith Pitt (right) speaks to Nationals MP Damian Drum (Image: AAP)
Always remember that the Nationals are, foundationally, not a political party, but a conspiracy to rort taxpayers. And that will always come through in whatever they do.
This week the Murray-Darling Basin Plan erupted as the first battlefront of Barnaby Joyce’s return to the leadership, with the Nationals moving amendments in the Senate to the Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021. That’s the bill belatedly providing some teeth so that the hitherto feeble sinecure of the Inspector-General of Water Compliance got some powers to address rampant water theft by irrigators, especially in NSW.