http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-24/top-water-bureaucrat-offered-confidential-...


Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Irrigation lobbyists offered access to confidential government documents

he top water bureaucrat in NSW, Gavin Hanlon, has been secretly recorded offering to confidentially share internal government information with irrigation lobbyists — documents he proposed to strip of government logos and share via a special Dropbox account — to assist their lobbying against the contentious Murray-Darling Basin Plan.


One of the cases under investigation by the former Strategic Investigations Unit involved a prominent cotton grower from the NSW and Queensland border at Mungindi, Anthony Barlow.
What is the Murray-Darling Basin Plan again?

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has remained controversial ever since its introduction back in 2012. So, why is it back on the agenda?

Documents seen by Four Corners show he was pumping water during an embargo in 2015 which had been established to ensure sufficient water flowed down the Barwon-Darling system to replenish Broken Hill's dwindling drinking supply.

The embargo, which ran during the first six months of 2015, was gazetted under NSW law and publicly advertised.

But when questioned by NSW officials, Mr Barlow claimed he had received permission to take the water from the then NSW minister for water, Kevin Humphries.

"We sat in a Barwon-Darling water users meeting at Bourke where the then-minister, Kevin Humphries, stated on three separate occasions, after being questioned directly by the members of the room, is it an event-by-event basis? To which he said, 'Yes, it has to be announced that flow in the river is embargoed,'" Mr Barlow said.

"I thought that would be enough, he was the Minister."

Mr Humphries did not respond to a request for a comment.

In a formal briefing for senior departmental officials, investigators wrote that as many as 1.191 gigalitres — or 1.1 billion litres — may have been pumped on Mr Barlow's property Burren Downs in contravention of NSW law.

Mr Barlow declined to comment.

Most politicians and their politics are just an opportunity to feather one's nest.
So cotton growers are doing the same thing and in part, crapping on everyone else down river.
Same as people cheating on their taxes. Pinching a grape from the supermarket.

Boo Hoo ... It's human nature to be greedy. 


Just don't be the last to realise ... the system is for gaming. And only idiots don't game it.
The system is collapsing and it's too late to stop it. So pull finger and rip as many people off as you can.

Make it your goal each and every day.

Success is measured by the amount of currency one steals from others.

Contributing is slavery. Why offer your talents when you are underpaid and under valued.

We are in a period of global anarchy. Most people haven't realised this yet and so it's still great pickings available to rip off and feather your nest with ... for the hard times ahead.


Next election. What's up app on your mobile and a dark coin cryptocurrency wallet. Sell your vote to the highest payer. At least then the screwing over is two ways.

Hemp is superior to Cotton. Less water required, less chemical, grows on more marginal land.

It's opposed so some can screw over the majority with more expensive and thirsty cotton.

____ wrote on Jul 25^th, 2017 at 8:25am:



contributing is how a "superior man" interacts with the world.
he operates with "no need for an outcome".
he draws his sense of satisfaction from within and he never relies on the environment to react to him to give him an outcome. this is how he learns to be non needy and non clingy.
This is how he goes from childhood to adulthood.

a woman can learn to contribute and give without the need for a payback by having a child and a man can do this with his children to some extent.

But a man still needs to be in contribution mode "all the time" if he wants to move up.

its fascinating that the greens are imploding now.
the system of being a taker and living in scarcity will always implode...it has no energy source to drive it.

to the superior man who just contributes for the joy of contributing, who just grinds it out because he is buzzed off of his own power....when such a man looks at the greens he sees children throwing tantrums, being all butt hurt, cowering in the corner, being very fearful and anxious and emotional...its like a small child who is scared of the dark.  if you want to break out of that, then you have to go through the fire , you have to do the hard yards, you have to take action.  thats why the greens attract people who are "stuck in their heads". they need to go have some kids and run some businesses and then they would have some real problems to deal with and they could stop "manufacturing problems" 

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2017 at 8:29am:



I agree bobby  what I am saying is..

who ever came up with the MDB plan   should have known  about the cotton farms..and how much water they would need......

we cant expect to have an industry like growing cotton.....if we are going to deprive them of water in the long run.. its pathetic....

no I dont agree with anyone stealing anything....but at the end of the day... what was their alternative?????????????????.....

when I see how we waste water   .. this doesnt surprise me..

cods wrote on Jul 25^th, 2017 at 8:57am:


the farms have been allocated a set amount of water every year. It's up to them what they grow.
Farms taking what they need is the cause of the problem.

I would have thought the far north of Australia that has a big wet season would be where you would grow cotton not in the dry areas along the Murray Darling!