The Government\u2019s \u201cnative fish plan\u201d is akin to shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, the Greens say.
\nGreens Spokesperson for Water Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cOur nation\u2019s biggest river system is in environmental collapse and farming communities are suffering because the Government has mismanaged the Basin and let greedy corporate irrigators to take too much water.
\n\u201cThe Water Minister\u2019s claim the Government is \u201cdoing all (they) can until it rains\u201d is simply false.
\n\u201cPraying for rain is not a drought policy or a plan to save the River.
\n\u201cWhile splashing around money to breed native fish, the Coalition\u2019s cuts to environmental flows means there is no water for the fish to survive. Just like shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic, this Government has no plan to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
\n\u201cThere will be more mass fish kills this summer because the Morrison Government has allowed big corporate irrigators to take more and more water so there\u2019s nothing left to keep the River alive\u201d.
\n\u201cThe Minister has tried to claim the Government is investing in science to deal with the fish deaths.
\n\u201cNewsflash Minister, the science says you must act on the climate crisis. The science says you need to end over extraction by big corporate irrigators. The science says dams are not the answer to a lack of water. The science says floodwater harvesting by big corporates stops water running in the Rivers when it does eventually rain.
\n\u201cIf the Water and Drought Minister was doing his job properly he would\u00a0act on the science and push his Government to get a climate policy because you do not have a drought policy if you do not have a plan to tackle the climate emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Government\u2019s \u201cnative fish plan\u201d is akin to shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, the Greens say. Greens Spokesperson for Water Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cOur nation\u2019s biggest river system is in environmental collapse and farming communities are suffering because the Government has mismanaged the Basin and let greedy corporate irrigators to take too … Continue reading “Govt\u2019s native fish plan akin to shuffling deck chairs on Titanic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}