CEC/LYM rip Abbott’s mask on Murray-Darling

Leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) unmasked Prince Philip acolyte Tony Abbott’s two-faced position on the destruction of the Murray-Darling Basin food bowl, at a Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) meeting in Echuca last week.

Spearheading the CEC’s fight against the plan to snare Australia’s food bowl in the global drive by the genocidal World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to lock away land from human activity, the LYM put Tony Abbott and the Coalition on the mat for writing the Water Act 2007 which finalised the plan.

In a typical ploy, Abbott and the Coalition displayed their contempt for the intelligence of farmers, by blithely attending most of the protest meetings as if they too were protesters, when it was they who were responsible for passing the bill to shut down the basin!

After less than 15 minutes of a press conference, Tony Abbott, flanked by Sharman Stone and Barnaby Joyce, abruptly shut down the press conference and walked away when the LYM’s Aaron Isherwood asked, “Have the three of you read the 2007 Water Act?”

Click here to watch a short video of Abbott’s retreat. (2.5 minutes)

As Abbott retreated, his cohorts attempted different arse-covering tactics: Stone admitted they designed the law, but blamed the MDBA’s interpretation; Barnaby blustered that the question was from a political party, “not the Fourth Estate”, and was therefore illegitimate.

For 27 years farmers have stuck by the Coalition, as it has engaged in a cold and calculating annihilation of Australian industry, which in the case of agriculture slashed the number of family farmers from close to 200,000 to less than 80,000.

The first 11 of those years was the Hawke-Keating government, which the Coalition attacked as “socialist”, at the same time as it supported every free trade, deregulation, privatisation and national competition policy that Hawke and Keating rammed through to crush Australia.

Then John Howard, with Tim Fischer, John Anderson and Mark Vaile, continued the Hawke-Keating policies, including privatising and dismantling the food-growing infrastructure in the Murray-Darling Basin.

One of the Coalition’s arse-covering lines at the moment, as expressed by Senator Nick Minchin on 11^th November, is, “Malcolm Turnbull [Howard’s Environment Minister who wrote the Water Act 2007] pulled the wool over our eyes.”

Are you dumb enough to fall for that? The Coalition hopes you are, yet again, even after 27 years of similar betrayals.

The only instance of the Coalition doing the right thing by Australians in recent times was Abbott’s back-flip on climate change and the ETS. However, despite the Coalition knowing it was “absolute crap”, it only changed course after public opinion shifted, and it was subjected to real heat from its constituents.

Tony Abbott is a self-confessed acolyte of Prince Philip, whom he lauds for establishing the global green movement, and cites as an inspiration for his own “conservative” conservation ideas.

In other words, the Malthusian monster who revived the worst traditions of British genocide, such as that against Ireland, Scotland and India in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, in founding the WWF in 1961, which has since murdered thousands of Africans and cleared millions for their lands, and is now pushing global treaties such as the Ramsar and Biodiversity treaties to lock away huge swathes of the earth’s land surface and oceans from food production, including now the Murray-Darling Basin, has a fan in Tony Abbott.

CEC leader Craig Isherwood commented, “Australians have to decide if they are going to stick with their parties, or stand up for the country. I too was in farming in the 1980s, but I wasn’t dumb enough to die, and founded the CEC instead, as a national institution dedicated to fight against the destruction of our industries and fight for Australia to have a future as a sovereign nation.

“If you’re prepared to fight, join us.”