Don't disagree on ducks being pests but we should not be rice farming, a complete waste of a limited resource
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Don't disagree on ducks being pests but we should not be rice farming, a complete waste of a limited resource
We can if the government is providing them access to water and denying that access to others. Would have thought a Libertarian would have been all over that sort of government interference in markets and resources.
When they are saying “we” shouldn’t farm this or that, they seem to be implying that they are in fact doing the hard yards to farm this or that. They are doing nothing of the sort. “They” is the correct term to use not “we”. Referring to the government as “we” is also incorrect, the government is not you or me or us, it is politicians and bureaucrats within their specific areas of influence.
You can’t steal what is yours. The government has engaged in wide scale theft by claiming water resources for itself.
That might be a bit different this year, pre roasted quacker, NOM.
That's one way of looking at it.
I know someone a relation of sorts, that built about 1/2 a dozen BIG dams (hush hush) on his large property.
The property had been operating successfully for years on the existing dams. It's his land so a case could be made that he should be able to build the dams. But if every single land owner or corporation built big dams what happens to the farmers downstream. That to me is the same as using water that isn't allocated to you.
China is building hydro dams on the Mekong river, to the detriment of Thailand and other countries.
The farmers downstream have to pay for the water to be flowed to their property.
The Sports rorts saga won't leave Morrison alone. Was in it up to his eyeballs.
Millions of dollars of Australian taxpayers money is being given hand over fist to mega rich overseas farming conglomerates so they can build MASSIVE dams, how good a lurk is that.
Those dams allow them to capture water that would end up downstream. Those overseas corporations are laughing all the way to the bank while saying to those downstream farmers, **** you Jack we're alright.
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What are you referring to when you say millions of taxpayer dollars are handed over?
Gia, do you say “we” when referring to Richmond ie “We didn’t kick straight enough today”?
How taxpayers are funding a huge corporate expansion in the Murray-Darling
Australian taxpayers have handed over billions of dollars to big corporations, allowing them to expand irrigation and use more water than ever before in the Murray-Darling Basin under a scheme that's supposed to be helping the environment.
www.abc.net.au
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That there are rice farmers in Australia at all is a disgrace.
How taxpayers are funding a huge corporate expansion in the Murray-Darling
Australian taxpayers have handed over billions of dollars to big corporations, allowing them to expand irrigation and use more water than ever before in the Murray-Darling Basin under a scheme that's supposed to be helping the environment.
Yes. A corrupt government is giving resources to cronies, and using taxpayers money to enrich its friends and denying access to other users of the resource downstream. And they are actually using taxpayers money to "buy back" the resource which is often an on-paper buyback.
Amazing that a self-styled libertarian would support such nepotism.
If I did I would be in error but the difference being that it wouldn’t have implications for the political problem of “who decides what is produced?”.
I think you mean cronyism and you really are losing the plot here. Please explain how you came to your conclusion when I’ve said the government shouldn’t be involved in water ownership decisions? You’re usually ok with logic but this is some of your worst work.
Cronyism is the abstract noun, cronies are the people who benefit in this case.
