The claims of environmental necessity have been comprehensively debunked by professors, hydrologists and local water experts. The use of fresh water in Lakes Alexandrina and Albert, the Coorong and the Murray Mouth can be summarized as a fraudulent squander.

Yet as a minister in the N.S.W. government once stated ‘We get a lot of money for being in this’ i.e. the NSW government gets a lot of money from the Federal government for participating in the MDBCA Basin Plan.

NSW politicians are right now selling the people in irrigation areas out.

Yet 70 NSW state lower house politicians are elected from Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong, while 23 are elected from the rest of the state. These 70 politicians have no agricultural constituents and actually need to appeal to Green voters to be elected. Consequently they will not, and actually cannot, vote in support of the irrigation or forestry industries.

The people of the Riverina need to form a state separate from NSW. Only as a state removed from the domination of NSW metropolitan politicians can decisions be made that will benefit the irrigation, forestry and wider supporting industries.

Our government is elected by the people for the people. At least we got the first part right.

Our gas is exported overseas at a discount price and the people there pay next to nothing to use it, meanwhile we pay top dollar. The government has the power to reverse this, but they don't. For the people?

We spend millions of dollars in overseas aid when the politicians of these countries live in opulence. Why isn't our government putting pressure on the governments of these countries to spend more money on their people instead of on their indulgent lifestyles? Meanwhile we have countless numbers of people of our own living in poverty and on the streets. For the people?

There is a growing shortage of jobs and yet per head of population, we have the highest intake of immigrants in the world. It's not racist, it's just common sense that we reduce our intake of immigrants until the job market can support more immigrants. Still no action from the government. For the people ?

Pensioners and the genuine job seekers are forced to live on a pittance while politicians get the golden handshake for life, no matter how they leave office. For the people? I could go on and you could blame ourselves for electing the party in government, but considering only one of the two parties always rules, we shouldn't blame ourselves. After all, aren't both parties for the people? That’s a joke.