MEDIA RELEASE

Although the Senate enquiry as suggested by the Australian Greens yesterday is a well-meaning proposal, it unwittingly provides yet another procedural distraction allowing the Federal Government to continue to dodge its over-riding responsibility to put an end to the continuing debacle that is the continuing mismanagement of the Murray-Darling by exercising its emergency powers and assuming immediate control of the water resources of the entire Basin.

Fair Water Use (Australia) fully agrees with Senator Wong?s response to news of the proposal, in that she believes that majority of Australians are seeking action rather than words. Sadly, the nation is becoming increasingly frustrated as it waits for the Minister to heed her own advice.

Fair Water Use urges the Prime Minister and Senator Wong to seize the moment and put an end to the endemic ?politicorporate? connivance that has led to the corruption of the Murray-Darling Basin.