Bundarrah Days

Victorian Water Minister John (Twitter) Thwaites says Victorian farmers must not be disadvantaged by the Federal Government's intention to legislate to take over the Murray Darling system.

"It's very easy to say what we need is just one management of the rivers and one management of the irrigation system, the problem is we've got property rights here that go back well over 100 years, now with the stroke of a constitutional pen, you can't simply remove those," he said today.

How ironic it is to hear Twitter claim to be defending farmers. All he and his government have done since being elected in in 1999 is make life difficult for farmers and landowners.

Take the native vegetation legislation, for example. Look at the eviction of the Mountain Cattlemen after 170 years, the coming eviction of the Barmah Cattlemen, the planned theft of water from the Goulburn Valley.

Read this again.....

"We've got property rights here that go back well over 100 years, now with the stroke of a constitutional pen, you can't simply remove those...."

Careful you don't choke on those words, Twitter.