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My qualifications & authority to comment upon the matter under considerationmay technically hinge around ray being responsible for 40' Hectares of the skinof Planet Earth, located'a kilometre: West of the Watershed, meaning that onepays-$600 or so in Rates,B ANtl-Lewies, for the privilecfge of' putting somethingbetween 5. Megalitres & 20 Megalitrea into the Darling's headwaters every^yearjs o . . . . i t ' s my liquid-contribution that yc5u-allere a-fixin° to have- ygselvesa feeding—frenzy upon8 therefore,. it;Od be polite for you to. consider my

Every society apparently requires a "Fool-On-The-Hill", i t ' s been arguedthat otherwise the "Beatles" would never have sung about i t ( . . « and where I livei t ' s agreed that i t appears to be my vocation; while one of the "Beginnings offWisdom" i s the willingness to take a Fool's advice,on occasion,, whereappropriates

There are people^ quite, nice people.*., who regularly think to themselves"Oh, What a shame - look at al l that lovely water jyst going to waste.,..SM ;whenever they observe: water in a creek- or river,, especially iff i t ' s flowingpast land on which they8re attempting to profit by farming^

There are other people, those who are educated in the ways of BiologicalScience, who are aware that the "Prime-Function" of "Biology" ( that 's "Life-Science"jd'y'know fthat?) i s that "THE MORE LIFE THAT OCCUPIES A SPACE, THE WORELIFE IS ABLE TO OCCUPY THE SPACE...?" ( each additional Species creates at least3, niches»fbr other Species- to live: withirw)f and one: of the saddest thingsabout Humanity at the moment is that for the past 59000 years i t ' s been thosewho see "Rivers" as "Water-going-to-waste" thafve; been allowed1 to have their way0

Anybody with a flair for "Crypto-Semantics" would readily percieve the flawin the logic:,,of those who see a l l the. water as being available for farming, i tl i e s in the: expanded meaning of their word "just"} pertssal of a Dictionaryyields:-the- fact that the full word is "Justifiably"f so the petard upon whichyonder irrigators have hoist themselves i s that they're claiming Six's againstJustice for there to be; water in the rivero A second spiral around the circular-logic track involves most cultural-views on Justice appearing to stem froman agreed~perception ofr what the God$heory would think^about whatever issue: i sunder scrutiny; and1 since.: i t ' s the Godtheory which rains ./the Life & the Waterinto the River-Basin, while- a definition off1 a "River" involves running intothe ocean.•*•.So in view of Australia's Constitutional Pre-amble includingthe "One Nation Under Godi..B" statement, i t ' s probably "Unconstitutional"to allow the Irrigation-Community to suck the1 River dry in their pursuit off'money-making schemes,,

There, haven"t been many issues which could knit together the Biologistswith the. Theologists and the. Constitutional Lawyers^ to unite:, against theEconomists & the Agricultureilists; but they've been allowed to suck1 the Riverdry 3 times in 10 years* 6 the- last time they accomplished this feat off'Technological Progress tthe river didn't go to the Ocean for 5 years consecutively!

HISTORY:-There are three facets to this one, Personal, National, & Global,,

Personally, one i s almost 50 & grew up in a "Social Black-Hole" where timemoved more slowly,& bad ideas took longer to f i l t e r in from "more civilised"places; if you'd prefer the story in verse then consult the f i r s t poem inthe accompanying small book ( I replaced Judith Wright:,as Poet-In—Residence,atat the Armidale Environment Centre;in I99R, y'aeel).

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In 1948 my father bought a holiday House at Red Rock, ao apartfrom having been concieved there in I960, 1 spent the first 18 years of mylife going to the coast for a fortnight roughly every 41-months; it was likeTime-Lapse Photography, 1 watched the Estuary dying in distinct stages under therelentless., impact of modern Australians® Every year less water in the riveras the siitation worsened,, every year less fish mixed with the water that's leftdue to "square-hooks" used illegally at night-time, if not from the permanentfringe of baited hooks on lines - sewing the; water to the shoreline everyweekend & school-holiday,.

Adding what I saw onto what my Father had to say about the changes he*dseen sinee 1943, it. was dear by the end off" Primary-School that my environmentwas being destroyed by advancing civilisation; then I went to Boarding-School,first at Armidale & then at Bowral. Armidale had been settled during the Sheep-Wars maybe 25 years-- before Blen Innes, and; the extra time showed up in extraenvironmental degradation? then "New England Dieback" hit the trees in myHome—country,, and before the Drought eulled the Leaf-eating Insects ( overbredat the time- after DDT in the Food-Chain thinned all the birds' eggs into- rnear-extinction before it was banned], everybody around hereabouts becamequite frightened at the skeletal landscapes Finally,after a few years,'vastswathes of the apparently-dead trees suddenly burst into radial-regrowth; andBowral was probably 50 years more settled & thereby devastated than Armidale,so it made a nice comparison,.

On one excoursion we visited the-; one remaining Hectare of Temperate Bain-forest,, at Robertson, all that's left of the landscape which covered the"Southern Highlands" from the Eastern Escarpment to the Western Watershedstretching from about Camd'en to" Goulboyrne; before it was all cleared for Dairyfarms, doe. to the high rainfall. But when the frarest was cleared the rainfalldeclined, to stabilise after 60 years, at 40% off' what it used to be*before, theprogress off' Agriculture began in th» district.. Traimtrips- from Bowral toBien Innes 6 back,, 4- times per year, so as to spend the Holidays at Red Rocknoting the new damage & absenees - ail re-info seed the perception", and thedysjunction between Biology & Economies'- has always: been a worrying fascination,dye to the Biologists: being unquestionably well-informed and enlightened bydoccumentation & measurements G historical records - but they're in charge offmeticulously charting the demise of Life On Earth,, objectively & powerlessly*

Meanwhile'it's the Economists-, with their self-inflicted Illuminated'Tunnel-Vision* using "Rationalisation" & "Denial" with greatest of prideswhi!eexplaining their views (despite these being "the two most pathological Ego-DefenseMechanisms in the Psychiatric Textbooks!); »no are in charge off trashing thePlanet, racing to undercut each other, in a global tragedy-of-the-commons.

To take my mind off it I went Flying, but altitude: allows one to look-down & see all the destruction at once,, as well as seeing all the things thatare hidden from the roads: at ground-level; kind of a 36Q-degre© & 3-dimensionalversion of a railway-traveller's privile'dged-glimpses into stranger's back-yards,so I gave up the aeroplanes & went Nursing8 After 5 years, the bad-back; struck,,

At the time 1 was renting a 5-bedroom house on 1500 Aores for $I5/wk» itwas an abandoned Sheepfarmers8-house on a Mining-Lease, 5 miles out of Emmavillebecause I'd been Charge-Nurse at the Vegetable Creek Hospital; so there one wasfstuck in a -Poverty-Trap 6 surrounded by sheep on the landscape with a radiobut no TV9 with not much to do but ponder the mystery of

:: what the rest ofHumanity thought it was doinge- And' why they were doing it. anyway I

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Since: retiring -» I've paid; rates for 20 of the. years onan Endangered Species Sanctuary; and while the NSW NPiS declared their BooroolomgFrogs'were "Biologically-extinct" in 1998,•I came out of the Drought last yearrwith a free-range herd of at least 100,000,. and they've bred about 3 times sincethen» The secret i s to yse Trespassing Sheep for Archery-Practice,., whereuponthe Australian Landscape will commence to recover; my neighbour enthusiastieallyrepairs the fences to contain his; vermin ( he runs a sheep to the acre on1500 acres of Table-land Traprock, plus; 50 catt lel) , , and stop them treading onfrogs- attempting to hibernate- the drought away - in the mud- around the waterholaso

1 live in a moist regrowth-forest, there"s no more rabbits/acre on my placethan the neighbours - but he lives on a stony rockscape,which flash-driesunless i t rains every 3. days000 my side goes 3 months before becoming dry enoughto burn.. After 19 Years I had a v i s i t - foe one day - from a wild: free-range.Koala,, he camped in a tree. ?5metres from my Gamp; the local Choughs led me to " 'him, otherwise 1 wouldn6t have noticed..,Thust I can te l l you that the "Dollar-Cost" of aquiring habitat ffit for a Koala to v i s i t -from dawn to dark, once -i s $40,000 to buy the land.,and pay rates for 19 years to rehabilitate theEco-system ( $500/year)9 meaning i t cost me- $49,500 over two decades for theday's thrilling*to the sight of the Koala*

There is- no style orr type, off" "farming" possible^on such a small holding ofthis- landscape;,, which would breakeven; but a l l such industrious fut i l i tywould destroy the Life which i s attempting to rehabilitate the land:,, after 150years of already having been Farmed,, ...•<> I was only afole to afford i t after i tsent the past i farmers- broke-,& a Sub-Dlvisionist lost money selling my blockto me; I*VR s t i l l got* lit because* I haven't been s i l ly enough aa to spend-moneyattempting to exploit^ or profit, from'living on tired land8 t-earn from t h a t . . . :

There was a time when the "Onward & Upward March Of Civilisation",as epitomised by the European Colonisation,& Dominion, off'leas indystrialisedNations G Cultures & Landscapes, was viewed as having been an unquestioned"Good-; Thing"} touted in terms of "improved productivity111, and "improved lifestyle*,'which the applieation oft" "Progressive11 techniques have made possible. . . . as i twas,

A couple of decades of paying attention to Radio National on the ABCNetwork^& reading New Scientist,has altered the perception of the- true natureof the "Achievements" that "European Civilisation" has wrought on the faceof Australia; beginning with Crypto-SemantiGs again, "Euro"being of course"From Europe Comes?' together with "Pean".... As spelt, that ' s a song off praisefrom an Angel; while-phonetically i t derives from "Peon", being a Latin terms t i l l in-use with the Spanish - meaning a "Landless, Ignorant**,Peasant"»

Such is the dichotomy between the Worldview wherein the Europeans brought:Enlightenments to the "Ignorant Savages"! and a more educated grip on the facts,freely available, from the historical record, which te l l a different story.

The f i r s t white-settlers in the: New England Table-lands showed up fromI830-I8S0, at which time the worst-paid people in London were the Tailors,makingArmy. Un.ifTar.ms*'.*. they might make as much as 2? pennies per week,, but after payingrent on- sleep ing-space: and byying their eandles G firewood - were lucky to haveSixpence, per week for food*.. Bread & tea' & sugar were the staples^'it wasn'tuncommon to live al l year on less:; than a dozen kinds off" flood,, anybody withoutmoney didn't eat; many people worked ten to twelve hours per dayf six; daysper week,, aa- i t Isn ' t hard to see why they jumped onto Ships going toAustralia,, I t is. hard to see why the: Europeans thought, they were ini any waysuperior to the Aborigines? sailboat versus boomerang, which embodies themore advanced use of Aerodynamies8.ee?»Gaptain Cook was able to see that.

- Tn T'/TQ, Australians ate 368 different food-species ower the year„„«,„£

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The people who lived where 1 now s i t , 250 years ago,, workedfor 2 hours per day to' supply themselves with food, shelter,& clothing; eachperson grazed on an acre per day, then came'back- to i t after ;..-3 years - being1000 acres/ persone«,»„ about the same as today's farmers - they're the onesactually taking a living front the landy. and! i t takes 4^000-5,000 acres to feedFarmer Fred & the.-, missus; plus 2 kidlets-while" maintaining the fences 6equipment, without: killing the; top soil 8 So8, considering that whatever goes onin the towns & cit ies is- but a phantasm of" the economy, there's no more peopleliving on & from the, landscape now than there used to beool Yet whereas thes i l t at the bottom off* the Ljtangothiin Lagoon toote 20,000 years,,under Aboriginallamd-management,to build up 0,35 metre deep; since Governor Arthur Phillipreleased the. Sheep & Potato®, the; Euro-Peons have put another metre of dirtat the bottom of* that lagoon clue to accelerated"'erosion-rates,.

The: people who lived here: kept whatever they made,, & gave away 90$ off-whatever was hunted ov- gathered,, so nobody went to sleep hungry no matter howbad a day they'd had| the wonderfully-progressive Euro-Peon's improved newway off' l ife sends thousands of people to bed hungry & homelesssevery sunset®

Europeons, in pursuit of the teachings of their Economists & Agroculturalists,have begun with feeding the food-plants to their livestock, followed by cuttingdown the forests,& shifting the topsoil to the bottom of the oc*eans,& riverbedsfal l in the name of "improved productivity", being a cover-story for. "increasedprofits"which apparently motivate those who believe in: the %eecf* fsr endlgss!.growth?of the economy,,

I urge the gentle reader to ponder the story of the Western AustralianRoyal Commission in I917, to consider the proposal to dearfel l the forestsurrounding Perth?for the planting ofi a wast belt of wheatfields; because thatwp.uld obviously generate a lot off'1 employment, and allow lots of: people to makequite a lot of money,, or so said the proponents-..... Evidence was taken froma Professor of Soil-Chemistry,, who testified to the Commission that while i twas true that clearing the forest would' allow successful wheat-crops to beharvested for 30-40 years - after 40-60 years the saline underground-water wouldrise, up to s ter i l i se the soil»because it:.; was the salt-tolerant trees that wereholding the saline-water too deep underground ( by transpiration) for i t toimpact the-roots off**'* surfaee-feeding crops,, in the top 2 metres ( he said 6 feet)of the; soil »i;.. like wheat* He said, including-a prediction that if they cut.the forest down then Perth would have a choice between drinking Seawater or* .' •Sewage within 90 years; I f i rs t heard that story on ABC RNfs Science Report in1997, at the 80-year mark,, and I think Perth's desalinating the ocean as i writethis submission«....

The reason this was the outcome was that the Royal Commission told theProfessor that they "Obuldn't allow Scientific; Prejudice (?) to stand in_ theface of Agricultural Progress,, „., , M ; which is why (pardon the expression) thepopulation of*Perth are able to choose to drink sewage »orr seawatert with informedconsent©

Another story worth considering i s that told by the LINE Professor ofAnthropology, to the effect that 6 times in the past 10,000 years the Australianshave tried to farm wheat8 in the Hunter Valley in NSW; they cleared 6 sowed &harvested paddocks of the Native grasses, built permanent-dwellings withMud-brick grain-siloa,& progressed1* as far as l i t t l e villages,. But, then, everytime, they went so far as to""have forgotten how to be; nomads*the.200-yearly

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History (Continued]:

trenches to & from the river,for fresh-water circulation, regulating water-levelsby dropping rocks into(& pulling them-* out of/the channels & feeding thefish on pelletised-plankton?ffrown in a different pond { by cutting out twospecies off l i t t l e r ffiah,betwixt the Plankton § the large fish', * their food-chainbecame 10,000$ more efficient ~ the Huwaians were doing something similar whenCaptain Cook arrived there). ..„ The same 200-yearl.y droughts, which killed-outthe- wheat-farmers,, dried*-up the rivers; & channels. G pondsJ& wiped out theAquaculturalistso.... or so I heard on a Scianes1-Report,an ABC Radio National,in 1996 or '97,

i t ' s entirely possible that Broadacre- Agriculture is not a sustainableoption,if conditions- suitable for Human Life are to be maintained,on theContinent of Australia; i t i sn ' t a joke,, nor is. i t alarmist„ All i t ' l l take; tofind out would be to pull the Petroleum- out of;:' the equation or shut down thePower-Grid,, maybe simply to deconstruct the Highway-network from pot-teleswould be sufficient; probably,, time will te l l o

One wonders what proportion of the Australian population would be able tosustain l i fe , i f food was only available wh&ft locally grown & harvested & stored?& distributed by muscle-powerf considering that most horses in Australia liveon petroleum-grown & transported fodder, while the soil which grew* Horse-feedprior to World War Two is. eitlier now under the Suburbs,.'the rivers, or the oceans,except where i t ' s decorating Snoweaps in New Zealand.... one doubts that goingback to horses will be an option*.

Something which might be workable would be small-plot subsistence*Vegetable-gardening,to eke out something like a baseline dietry-intake, In - .between efforts to rebuild a* functional Lifestyle from whatever the Economyleaves behind,when it. departs-} but*all.. that does depend on regular rainfall,and: the entire inland of' NSff South-Queensland^ Victoria through to * SouthAustralia*... depends on a healthy Mwrray-Darling Basin®

If the Irrigation-Communities are permitted to pursue their Doliar-driven& Market-frbrou&a'based plans., to:> extract*, a profit from every l i t r e in the-Riverbed, then the Scientific evidence irrrefuteably demonstrates that they shallki l l the Basin; i t ' l l become a dustbowl,decorated with salt-pans & skeletaltrunks; of leafless-trees, windblown & scarrifiled,, intermittently drained byan otherwise dead sewage-ditcfr, where the river used to be. I t i sn ' t a threat, buti t might be a So,ientistta version of a promise0,0a

When 1 pay* my rates to watch the legalities flow under the downhill'boundary-fences, there is; an expectation of "secondary-gains"; in that 1 expectthat water to nourish wetlands & forests all the way to the Western & Southernbeachline, my return-harvest is reaped when the plants transpire & the pondsevaporate - thus humidifying the Westerly-Winds,after they blow hot & dry ' .out of Central-Australia but before they arrive at the Western Slopes of theGreat Dividing Range. The plan is' to s i t here*just below the watershed,&be rained»-upon by my own recycled Western-Runoff; when the system's in'goodcondition something like 40^ of the ra in ' ! recieve comes from- the Westf& morethan half of i t comes from evapo-transpiration out of the Darling Basin,, notmuch floats all the way cross-continent,from the Indian Ocean-direct.

So, while the Scientific Evidence i s that almost half the MOB- Water-Allocations must be revoked & the water returned to the Environment,, reclaimedfrom the; Xrrigationists who*ve been stealing i t ; the Economic/'Agroqult-istsare all howling & wailing in protest,, like lunatics in the. moonlight", incensedthat they might be prevented from continuing to conduct one of the worstexamples of Environmental vandalism^in prospee±^on the Planet at the moments

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Globally speaking, with the exception perhaps of* the Rainforest-Dwellers of South America, the proximate cause of the fall off' every Civilisationthat ever rose for the past S,000 years has been unfettered Broad-acre1 Agroculture,following widespread deforestation,& generally intensified by Irrigation®

One might joke that the Egyptian Economists preached upon the need fortheir Government to build a TouH1 t» attraction, which required the desertificationOf the" Sahara,& Libya's i*u>3i j1- * be destroyed} a l l in the effort to grow enoughBarley,to feed the Stonpma«-ons,npt ded to build the Pyramids & the Sphinx:...,, Butitr's a l l more or-less too true to laugh at, ineiuding the not-so-mlnor pointthat something like half of all the Egyptians' currently known to be employed arescratching a living by Catering to the international Tourists; who s t i l l flockto gawp at the Pyramids,while paying no attention at a l l to the Desert it; tookto erect the masonry®

In Babylon they hit upon1'.the concept off' irrigating the desertiffyinglandscape, when * the-- rainfall commenced to -, diminish following deforestation — asi t tends* to dof, and the trick held their Civilisation together? for a while; untilthe disolved-salts^from the irrigation-water, steril ised their' soil# Refugeesfrom Babylon took progressive-notions to Greece, where Civilisation flourisheduntil deforestation compelled Alexander The Great to conquer new lands, alwaysseeking more; and when his administration died with him,it was the Romanswith their "Latifundia" - broadacre; farms; operated with slave-labour - whowiped out their own ecology 6 then trashed EJuEppejto make up their percievedshortfalls:. With Bows, Arrows,, Nets-,& Spears,, the Roman Empire made Lions ex<tin@t;from the Mediterranean to Scotland and Portugal to Persia®.

The Cambodians crashed their ecology around Ankor-Watf the Mayans & the ' • .Incas & the Gacaxtlans did it. in South Amerieaffrom Peru to Mexico; the Long-Earssailed from South America to Easter Island on Papyrus Rafts,, the Reeds growingin the Crater-Lake at Easter Island are genetically-identical with the onesgrowing in Lake-TitlesaSa... Once they arrived they deforested the Island, butheld their Culture intact;unti l the Polynesians arrived,& displaced them®

In every case,, the pursuit of increased production!via the fantasy thatHumans; are capable of better managing the landscape than millions of years ofEvolution/Godtheory-Implewtation,has" always & everywhere produced the samesequence of events; following an in i t i a l apparent success - allowing output togrow'above, what Nature wouidBve provided,, then, as the Ecology disintegratesi t becomes unprofitable to sow further destruction as yields drop, finallythe Economic: Activity is: abandoned in that area,& Nature attempts to repairthe damage.

The favourite excuse has been the need to service the Mortgage, which may fcebe why so many of the Religious- Teachers from around the Mediterranean preachagainst the Charging or Paying of* Interest,on loans; the Pharisees, theZoroastrians, the Commandments Wloses brought, down to the Hebrews - all forbidwhat they called "the practice of Usury", because the Godtheory said it; was so.Later on,the Hebrews were taught-by Deuteronomy^not, to Charge Interest toone's brothers-",, which became something of a loophole; other Jews could! borrowfreely, but al l the Boyira would have to pay interest on loans . . . . . followingwhich the Jews became rather rich, the landscape was despoiled as the economyprospered; antf many offtie tribes paying interest on loans, simultaneously^developed different strains- ofr Anti-Semitism-. Then, Jesus said a l l men are brothers!

About the time the Roman Empire was at it*s peak, along toddles JoshuaBen-Oavid8 also known as Jesus,"the Christ"( "the Annointed* i s what that means)who- '-' remains famous to this day? for thrcMw W"! -Moneylenders out of the Temple.

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off Solomon, they were charging interest on loans- used to purchase animals 6birds for sacrificing upon the Altar, and the Jes-us-ish view was that theUsurious-transaction defiled the whole process- - turning i t into Blasphemyrather than Prayer, I t 9 s a logically-coherent viewpoint, but the Moneylendershad been paying plenty off taxes,to the Civil Authority;and their- complaints dulycaused Jesus to be executed,, for his; Orthodoxye

For the following 600 years Christians despised the Jems as much fortheir breach off the Usury-Commandment as they did for their?- involvement inpetitioning the Romans- to execute. Jesus, but. then Mohammed began preachingin Arabia ( heavily ctesertifiedj) against the evils off" Usury; he said it. turnedthe land into desert,and: ruined the borrower's health, with overwork to theborrower & lack of-" Fallow-seasons for the Land.... .Allah,too,, forbids SiU'*'"

In order to differentiate themselves from the Moslems the Christiansdecided to tolerate those who paitf interest,while i t was s t i l l consideredsinful to charge inter t ; and mean while, i t becaniR fashionable for the City-States on the Italian Peninsula to allow a small "Ghetto" off*" Jews to existaround the City Wall, the JJews would then grow rich ffrom their wicked Usuriouspractices, and their income-stream could' be duly taxed to support the treasury,and pay the militarists, to behave themselves^

By the time Shakespeare was writing his Merchant Of V'enice9the Churchwas coming to terms with the fact that Europe's Economy had been based onInterest-paying Loans { disguifjuised as International Currency-transactions]•ROF" eenturies; Were wasn't any way of winding that Genie back into the bottle,the Renaissance occurred instead, and*5 Europe diseovered The Americas awaitingplunder & pillage:,, with Expeditions funded by speculative investors usingborrowed money9witN their? loans; insured. . . . . .

There's ErtOQ0 years off evidenes to the effect that allowing an individual,or a community of individuals?to vandalise the Environment so as to pay theirdebts; is<£ -completely reprehensible idea^lt 's a more fynctional option topay such Individuals:jn&fe, to try to "make a living'*, by "working hard"? if' a l lthey1re able to think off i s some foolish seheme to make everything worse, solong as they make their repayments f!or a few. more yearsa. • * ®

Conclusions.-!.

Give the Irrigationists exactly what they've asked ffbrr/ They want a l lthe decisions:; to be; based ypon "Soeial & Economic* Evaluations off* Human-Imp act,rather than giving over-riding concern* to Environmental-factors^1"1» I believetha t ' s a fair summary off' what they're demanding.0«,»0(? j«

Therefore, considering that i t ' s clearly better to cut back Irrigationby S)$ immediately and accept that hair the lrrigators will need to be paid tobe unemployed ( tjftiil t^eY dream up something else to do with their Lifetimethat does wake' sense) B rather than allowing them to persist for another decade'until they k i l l the entire Basin - and they're al l Unemployed anyway; simply .explain to them that i t ' s PRECISELY because off the Economic; & Social-implicationsthat they have to be stopped,now! Halff of them* on the Dole,right, now^beatshaving everybody from the Blue Mountains to Aiiea Springs dying off tihirstj after f

the Irrigation-Community makes yet' another Desert,,, chasing their? prof it-fantasies.

Why else d'y* think we've got sueh a Mining-Boom at the moment, if" not tofeed enough royalties to the Government that Australia, can choose to paythe Dole9tto all) the unemployed Irrigationists; % I t ' s a better use off the cashthan playing Hop scotch, on the Minefields; of Absurdistan; whieti i s where i t ' sbeing otherwise wasted,, just now0 So,, you-ellj please be brjave, get this right, I

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