MEDIA RELEASE

The comments ascribed to Senator Wong (Monday), in response to the latest grim Governmental report on the status of the Murray-Darling (Sunday), that the current crisis is a result of drought rather than over-extraction, is akin to a chicken farmer stating that the decimation of his flock is due to lack of eggs rather than the interventions of a fox which has taken up residence in the chook-pen. 

Is this really all that our water supremo has to offer, as the nation?s most significant waterways continue to collapse? At the risk of serial abuse of metaphor, perhaps it is time to reassign the deck-chairs on the grounded Titanic that is the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - If only there were enough water....

The Murray-Darling requires visionary action and not prevarication.