The Australian Greens have called on the Prime Minister Scott Morrison to visit the Lower Darling and see the environmental disaster for himself following another mass fish kill in Menindee.
\n\u201cWhere the bloody hell is the Prime Minister? Why hasn\u2019t he or his Water Minister been to the River to see the environmental crisis at all in the last month?,” Greens environment and water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cThousands more fish have died and yet not one member of the Prime Minister\u2019s team has bothered to see the ecological disaster unfolding on the River themselves. It\u2019s time Scott Morrison stopped pretending nothing is wrong and get himself to Menindee. He needs to explain how his Government\u2019s mismanagement of the River could let this happen.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s almost a month on since the last mass fish kill in Menindee and the Water Minister David Littleproud has been missing in action. It\u2019s clear he\u2019s not up to the job.
\n\u201cPeople are sick of seeing fish die right before their eyes and yet the Government is doing nothing.
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government has done everything to cover-up their mismanagement of the Murray Darling Basin. Last week they tried to bury the damning assessment by the Productivity Commission, which said in no uncertain terms that the environment has been undermined and forgotten under the Murray Darling Basin Plan.
\n\u201cHiding reports, covering up mismanagement and turning a blind-eye to corruption is inexcusable. It is clear that the Liberal National Parties are looking after their greedy corporate mates that are taking and harvesting water at the expense of river communities, small farmers and ultimately, the environment.
\n\u201cWe need a Royal Commission into the Murray Darling Basin. We\u2019ve heard of water theft, meter tampering, corruption, fraud and water too toxic to drink or bathe in – and now a third fish kill is unfolding in the Lower Darling.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s time for the Government to take some real action to set this right. We need more environmental flows, an embargo on corporate cotton harvesting all the water it can, and a Royal Commission.
\n\u201cOur river system is our nation\u2019s food bowl and it is dying. The time to hide behind reports and hope it will all sort itself out is over. This environmental emergency must be remedied.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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