Food bowl executioner gone—now let’s get rid of the judge and jury

Mike Taylor’s resignation is a good first step to saving the Murray-Darling Basin as a food bowl; now we must dump the Water Act, water trading, and the Coalition and ALP politicians who put the fate of the food bowl in the genocidal clutches of Prince Philip’s World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and its Wentworth Group, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood said today.

“Taylor doesn’t deserve sympathy,” Mr Isherwood said, “He executed the plan to destroy our national food bowl, and his attempt to cover up the role of the Wentworth Group shows he knew exactly what agenda he was pursuing.

“But he’s done an extra service by resigning, because it means that the parties most responsible—the major political parties, that is—can’t hide behind him anymore.”

Mr Isherwood declared that not just the Water Act 2007, but the whole “reform” agenda must be scrapped:

• “Australia must assert its sovereignty and its right to food security.
• “We must clear Prince Philip’s WWF and its Ramsar and Biodiversity conventions out of the basin and out of Australia. Organisations that exist solely to reduce human population must not have any say in the management of our food bowl; in other words—kick Dracula out of the blood bank!
• “We must scrap privatised water trading; instead the combined federal and state authorities must manage the water as a resource for food production, and allocate it based on its availability—not on the British-invented fraud of ‘market forces’.”

Mr Isherwood laid the blame for the Basin Plan squarely on both major parties, and singled out the Coalition’s Barnaby Joyce, who is now squirming to cover his butt, but who boasted on 11^th August, “The Coalition put the Murray-Darling Basin on the path to national management in 2007. We started the process of fixing the Murray-Darling and we remain committed to that process. If elected, we will finish what we started.”

Mr Isherwood continued, “What they actually started was water privatisation and trading, and then they gave the Wentworth Group free rein to shut down the Basin, culminating in the Coalition’s Water Act 2007, which sailed through both houses of parliament with such unanimous support it didn’t even go to a vote.

“They betrayed Australia’s national interest, and now they are trying to pretend they didn’t. The good news is they are lying because they are terrified by the backlash against the MDBA Plan.”

He concluded, “I urge every Australian who’s prepared to fight to save the food bowl to join the CEC—that will really terrify them!”