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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Investigative TV journalism at its best.
Is the Murray-Darling doomed? Or can the Rudd Government pull off a radical and costly rescue? Sarah Ferguson tests the water.
Reporter: Sarah Ferguson
Date: 20/10/2008
TRANSCRIPT FOUR CORNERS Buying Back the River
20th October 2008
SARAH FERGUSON: In the endless drought, clouds carry promise, but little else. If the government is right, climate change will continue to defeat the best hopes of our farmers.
Its forced the Federal Government to take radical measures to keep Australias most important and most exploited river system alive.
KEVIN RUDD, PRIME MINISTER: It will be tough, it will be difficult, it will be expensive.
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: Well its by far the biggest adjustment in natural resource management in our federation. Right, the scale of the task is gigantic.
SARAH FERGUSON: Big irrigators on the Murray-Darling are resisting the intervention, $12.9-billion worth to change the way the river is run.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: We live in a damn harsh environment, weve got to learn to live with it, not try and control it, not try and spend money on it to solve something thats run by nature.
SARAH FERGUSON: The biggest sums so far are to be spent buying back water from in the Northern Basin, where the Queensland State Government is about to grant huge licenses to its biggest irrigators just in time for the Federal Government to buy them back.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: I mean if the Governments that stupid and the taxpayer's that generous well good luck to them but Im saying its a national disgrace.
SARAH FERGUSON: Tonight on Four Corners: Buying Back the River
(On screen text: Buying Back the River, Reporter: Sarah Ferguson)
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: Water is our life blood out here
SARAH FERGUSON: Last month John McKillop sold Toorale Station to the Federal Government.
It was the largest and most controversial purchase so far, in the Governments plan to reclaim the rivers.
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: Its always, its a mixed emotion, you know, Toorale is a great grazing property, its been very good to Clyde.
SARAH FERGUSON: The managing director of British owned Clyde agriculture has kept a low profile since the deal.
$23.7-million to take the historic Toorale out of production.
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: Toorale is a total of 91,000 hectares, 2,000 hectares of which has been developed for irrigation.
SARAH FERGUSON: So it, its n-not predominantly a cotton farm?
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: No, I wish it was, it would be worth considerably more than $24-million.
SARAH FERGUSON: in the good years, before the drought, Toorale had water, lots of water.
TONY MCMANUS, PROPERTY OWNER: The Warrego comes down from central Queensland, it joins our property about 35 kilometres from the house here on the Northern boundary, and it runs down to a series of -
SARAH FERGUSON: Toorale is in the Northern part of the Murray-Darling basin. The stressed river system which covers a seventh of the entire continent, between the South Australian coast and Queensland.
Toorale sits at the junction of the Warrego and Darling Rivers, 60km from Bourke. Its water is pumped out of the river on one side and diverted from the flood plain on the other side into billabongs.
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: The banks up here are designed to spread a flood across the flood plain to grow more grasses for livestock and down here at the Ross Billabong its designed to capture water for irrigation.
SARAH FERGUSON: Those dams and banks were dug out more than hundred years ago. In the late 19th century, irrigation pioneer Samuel McCaughey made this one of the most famous pastoral stations in the country.
Wool was sent from Toorale down river to Adelaide by paddle steamer, Henry Lawson worked here as a rouseabout, when there were 250,000 sheep being shorn in the Toorale sheds.
One the original homesteads still stands, although its seen better days.
SARAH FERGUSON: Toorale generated so much wealth for its owner Samuel McCaughey that he gave this once magnificent homestead to his niece as a wedding present. Now, a hundred years later, the dams and banks that created so much of that wealth are going to be torn down. Toorale is going back to the river.
For the second time in the Federal Governments buy back scheme, they bought the land as well as the water, in a joint purchase with the NSW State Government, they want to turn Toorale into a national park.
So the cattle yards and the sheep and the cotton and the wheat all have to go before Christmas.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR (speaking to two mean): The more water you use, the more license you got and the more inefficient you were, the more you're rewarded -
SARAH FERGUSON: NSW liberal senator Bill Heffernan has been arguing for a solution to the Murray Darling crisis since his maiden speech in 1996, but not at the expense of working properties.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: I think it was a symbolic gesture which I think was seriously wrong. There are umpteen places in the Murray-Darling Basin that you can go and buy water without the land if you want the water.
SARAH FERGUSON: The loss of the land has angered the locals in Bourke.
(Excerpt of footage from a Bourke town meeting)
BOURKE RESIDENT: We are all sick and tired of being the scapegoat, were the ones that are suffering.
BOURKE RESIDENT 2: Suddenly because of two illogical government decisions we suddenly find our town on its knees, disgusting, disgraceful.
SARAH FERGUSON: During the drought Bourke has been dying slowly.
Five irrigation properties in the area are up for sale or have been repossessed, up to 20 per cent of the population has left town, shops and businesses are boarded up.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: We are very aware of the ah, the impacts on communities of this and any other purchase, but Id make a couple of points, the first on this one is this is a willing seller. The Government, or the Governments, New South Wales and the Commonwealth, chose to purchase this for environmental reasons from a willing seller.
SARAH FERGUSON: It doesnt alter the fact that there is an impact on Bourke.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: No, but theres, its not a compulsory acquisition, its a willing seller. The second point more broadly is.
SARAH FERGUSON: By a British agricultural company who presumably arent concerned about the future of Bourke?
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Well I never inquired as to who the owner of the company was.
(Excerpt of footage from Bourke Bowling Club)
BOURKE BOWLING CLUB EMPLOYEE: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Wednesday night membership badge draw. Meat tray, (inaudible) the badge draw is worth $800 and the consolation will be worth $400. If you'd like to purchase any tickets, they will be on sale -
SARAH FERGUSON: The Bourke RSL closed a few months ago, leaving only the bowls club, half empty on badge draw night.
CECIL ROBINSON, BOURKE RESIDENT: I remember back we had seven pubs and three clubs and now theres one club and say three pubs. And like theres about eight or nine churches and theres, now, not that were religious but theres only about two now. It's affected everybody.
BOURKE RESIDENT 2: Youll kill the town, you'll kill it. Youll kill the whole town.
SARAH FERGUSON: Not everyone is down on their luck tonight, butcher Cecil Robinson has won back his own meat tray. He thinks the river also deserves a break.
Do you think the river needs looking after?
CECIL ROBINSON, BOURKE RESIDENT: Shit yeah, yeah. Yeah, most certainly. We say OLD Cubbie Station gets our water but youve got to think about down below places like Wilcannia and Tilpa and them places that just dont get water.
(End of Excerpt)
SARAH FERGUSON: The Federal Government wont release the details of what they paid for the water at Toorale, but Four Corners understands they paid $11.3-million for the water and jointly with NSW $12-million for the land.
Just signed a slightly too large cheque perhaps?
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: Ah not in my view.
SARAH FERGUSON: The deal was struck quickly.
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: We actually only had two meetings. So at the second meeting there was someone representing Penny Wongs department.
SARAH FERGUSON: The meetings were held in Sydney, 9 days and a few hours before the sale, no one from the
Federal Government visited Toorale.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: I think it was embarrassing. To buy a place worth $23 or 4-million dollars, sight unseen, find me someone, somewhere that would do that other than a Government? And if it was about returning water to the system there are plenty of scientists that are gonna tell you that is stupid, its not gonna return water to the system.
SARAH FERGUSON: Its not going to return any water now because after years of drought the dams are very low, therell be even less water when the Government takes over in a few months.
SARAH FERGUSON: Were they surprised when you told them that a lot of it was going to evaporate by the time they got it?
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: (laughs) yeah yes.
SARAH FERGUSON: Working out how much water they'll get when it rains again isnt straightforward either. Toorale holds licenses to take up to 26,000 mega litres a year from the river and its flood plain, or roughly enough water to fill 26 Olympic swimming pools.
But no one really knows how much water is diverted onto the property by the 100 year old banks.
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: The expectation is that those banks will be removed or partially removed and that water will flow straight through to the Darling.
SARAH FERGUSON: Now in terms of that water do we really have an idea how much water will be allowed to flow through the system once those banks are gone?
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: No, its, at any one its a best estimate.
SARAH FERGUSON: You said that it would return 20,000 mega litres in an average year.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Average year.
SARAH FERGUSON: 80,000 in a flood year. Im just wondering whether those are those are actually reliable figures. Can we know what were getting? Do you know what youre getting?
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: That is that that is the advice that we were given, okay.
SARAH FERGUSON: By whom?
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Ah well Id have to go back and look Sarah.
SARAH FERGUSON (to John Mckillop): In fact any calculation about how much you might get over here for example the figures up to 80,000 in a flood year? Sounds like an exaggeration...
JOHN MCKILLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR CLYDE AGRICULTURE: Its an extremely high estimate, and again you know, you would need to be, as I said in a big flood it flows out everywhere anyway and around the bank system. So its, we physically cant store 80 or 90,000 mega litres of water on Toorale.
SARAH FERGUSON: Former deputy Prime Minister John Anderson is dubious about the sale, despite the fact that he is a director of Clyde agriculture who sold Toorale.
JOHN ANDERSON, FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: Toorale hasnt grown anything for years because there hasnt been any water. Well that tells you that unless everythings going to turn around and were suddenly going to get reliable water flows again, a lot of years to come Im afraid what the taxpayers actually bought is air.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: The whole purpose of purchasing allocation is to ensure that as it rains the rivers get a greater share. For the first time we have a national Government that will do that.
SARAH FERGUSON: If the Governments ambitious plan to save the Murray Darling is going to succeed, its crucial that the buybacks like Toorale deliver large volumes of water to the wetlands that keep the system alive.
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: One of the big mistakes weve made is that weve tended to think of rivers as just the main channel down the central part and forget that right at the end of these river systems are these incredibly complex deltaic floodplains.
SARAH FERGUSON: Can you have a healthy river system without a healthy floodplain?
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: Theres no way you can possibly do that. These floodplains also clean out water, so you get this incredible kidney type effect when you put say a big amount of water down through the Macquarie marshes, when it comes out the other end, its almost crystal clear.
(Excerpt of footage of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the Coorong wetlands)
COORONG WETLANDS EXPERT (to Kevin Rudd): Over the next six months, it's predicted to drop another 0.5 of a metre -
SARAH FERGUSON: The near collapse of the iconic Coorong wetlands at the mouth of the river Murray in South Australia have now been recognized as a national tragedy.
(On screen text: 5th July, 2008)
KEVIN RUDD, PRIME MINISTER: This is where we see, climate change and the real challenges facing water and the river Murray come together.
SARAH FERGUSON: But there are Coorong type wetlands right up the river system from South Australia to Queensland.
(End of Excerpt)
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: Where weve got the Coorong happening weve also got the same thing unfolding in the Lower Bidgee. Weve got issues on the Lower Lachlan. Weve got the Macquarie Marshes is in terrible trouble. Weve got the Gwydir Wetlands, and I guess the last wetland off the block is Narran Lakes and the Condamine-Balonne.
SARAH FERGUSON: Ecologist Richard Kingsford has spent his life travelling to Australias rivers and their floodplains.
Hes part of a group selected by Penny Wong to advise the Government on the buy backs.
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: There were there certainly some arguments about whether or not Government had thought well enough about how it was going to manage the water once it got it and I think that is going to be the big issue in the next five years after Government has bought it which is a big challenge to get over. But after its bought it hows it going to manage it and get it to the best effect.
(Excerpt of footage of Richard Kingsford driving through the Macquarie Marshes)
SARAH FERGUSON: Does the rain this morning really make any difference to the marshes?
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: It makes a little bit of difference, and it's good because the frogs are starting to come out in these little flood plains.
(End of Excerpt)
SARAH FERGUSON: Today hes travelling to the Macquarie Marshes on the flood plain of the Macquarie River. Although degraded by nearby development, the Macquarie Marshes are internationally recognized wetlands, theyre known as the Kakadu of the inland.
The Federal Government has already purchased $4.5-million worth of water in the Macquarie valley.
Like forensic investigators, Richard Kingsfords team of scientists from the University of NSW are combing a tiny area of the marsh.
(Excerpt of footage of scientists performing tests in the marshes)
SCIENTIST 1: PH 7.76, when it says DO just write 8.8 per cent.
SCIENTIST 2: 8.8 per cent.
(End of Excerpt)
SARAH FERGUSON: Theyre trying to answer the question, what millions of dollars of water would actually deliver.
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: We want to know what happens if you let X mega litres through that tap at the top of the system and what sort of response youll get here. Thats the Holy Grail but its incredibly complex.
SARAH FERGUSON: Dr Tom Rayner wants to see native fish restored.
DR TOM RAYNER, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: When youre talking to the old school guys whove been around for years and since the 50s the old stockmen, and they talk about the Macquarie River flowing chest deep, clear water, schools of golden perch, and now were picking up carp out of you know knee deep muddy water.
SARAH FERGUSON: But theres a complication which could prevent some of the water bought back for the system actually reaching the marshes.
Using aerial photography and satellite imagery, Kingsford has identified about 2,000 kilometres of channels and levee banks on the flood plain that move water for irrigation, for crops and for grazing land.
SARAH FERGUSON: Youre just, I guess amazed at the scale of it and how much of it there is. And its almost like a maze and sometimes its very difficult to actually see how the river system creeps through it.
The New South Wales Government said in July that no new channels or banks can be dug out on the flood plain but most of the existing ones will be authorized.
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: I think thats the biggest issue is that, you know, as we start to buy back water in these river systems how can we be sure that the water thats been bought back for the environment is doing the best good and is not actually being extracted for irrigation or some other use.
(Excerpt of footage of Chris Hogendyk and Sarah Ferguson walking through marsh area)
SARAH FERGUSON: The construction of the banks and channels began in the 1980s, most of it put in place by the flourishing cotton industry.
CHRIS HOGENDYK, GENERAL MANAGER, AUSCOT, MACQUARIE VALLEY: We see as weve gone along the reed warblers coming in here, we've got pale headed rosellas.
(End of Excerpt)
SARAH FERGUSON: Its comes as a surprise then that this well preserved corner of the marshes is owned by one of the cotton industrys biggest players.
CHRIS HOGENDYK, GENERAL MANAGER, AUSCOT, MACQUARIE VALLEY: We come down here a lot particularly with our kids and stuff, and yeah at night when the waters rising the sound of frogs round here is incredible.
SARAH FERGUSON: Chris Hogendyk may sound like an environmentalist, but hes a cotton farmer. A farm manager for Auscott, who pioneered cotton production in the Macquarie valley in 1967.
SARAH FERGUSON: Is the cotton industry in this valley scared of what Penny Wongs going to do next?
CHRIS HOGENDYK, GENERAL MANAGER, AUSCOT, MACQUARIE VALLEY: Absolutely, because I dont know where were going. We see that there seems to be a time table thats around for change, and I dont know that its all factually based.
SARAH FERGUSON: Theyre so concerned about the Governments buy-backs, theyve set up a demonstration project, to prove that its not irrigation thats destroying the marshes. Two hundred and sixty hectares have been sealed off from any form of farming.
CHRIS HOGENDYK, GENERAL MANAGER, AUSCOT, MACQUARIE VALLEY: The property is called Propaganda Farm -
SARAH FERGUSON: Is that its official name?
CHRIS HOGENDYK, GENERAL MANAGER, AUSCOT, MACQUARIE VALLEY: No, look well Propaganda is selling a story if you like.
SARAH FERGUSON: The story according to Hogendyk is that the real problem is caused by grazing sheep and cattle, not irrigating for cotton.
CHRIS HOGENDYK, GENERAL MANAGER, AUSCOT, MACQUARIE VALLEY: I think if you remove grazing from the core wetlands that those wetlands would actually be more resilient, would actually hold the water in them longer, they would actually become a much more valuable resource.
SARAH FERGUSON: Scientists say the propaganda farm is nothing but that, propaganda.
PROFESSOR RICHARD KINGSFORD, UNIVERSITY OF NSW: Id love to see some evidence of it and you know some quantitative work. You look at somewhere like the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve which has had no grazing in it for more than 20 years and yet were seeing these colossal impacts of dying and dead red gums there.
I mean theres just no comparison about the impact of taking water away from the system and having a herbivore there thats perhaps grazing more than it should do.
SARAH FERGUSON: What the irrigation industry is afraid of is giving up a bigger share of its water entitlement to the environment.
Theyre holding onto to their massive investments in water, waiting to use their allocations when it rains.
But the influential Wentworth group of scientists wants radical change to the river system. They claim even before climate change is factored in too much water has been allocated for the Murray Darling to survive.
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: The long term health of the river requires a complete resetting of the allocation system. We need to downsize the system. We need to get more water into the river for environmental health.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: We know that weve historically over-allocated. We know we have not managed this basin as a basin. Weve managed it as separate rivers. And we know that were facing reduced inflows, historically low inflows, as a result of climate change.
So really the policy task is the same, you have to reduce how much were taking out of the rivers.
SARAH FERGUSON: Over-allocation happened up and down the Murray Darling, but this one valley in Northern NSW is a case study in negligence.
Moree is the centre of the Gwydir valleys farming country. The 1970s saw a veritable cotton rush in the Gwydir valley.
(Excerpt of footage from archives)
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE NARRATOR: The Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission is building a series of dams to control the rainwater run-off from the western fall of the Great Dividing Range. One of these dams, near Inverell, is Copeton dam on the Gwydir River.
SARAH FERGUSON: Completed in 1976, the dam was a massive tax payer funded project to develop the dry inland of New South Wales.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE NARRATOR: Water now flows down the Gwydir River from Copeton dam to the irrigation areas around Moree.
(End of Excerpt)
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: I love that water in the river and I love to see that river flowing high.
SARAH FERGUSON: John Seery was one of the original risk taking entrepreneurs who moved in to the Gwydir valley.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Copeton Dam was being constructed at the time and the Government was encouraging people to come here to develop, so I thought oh, Ill go and I knew a little bit about irrigation farming so, come up here, they were, dishing out water licences or allocating water licences at the time and ah well, better go where the water is.
SARAH FERGUSON: The licenses gave famers the right to draw on the water here.
If you want to understand what went wrong in the Gwydir valley you have to start here, at the Copeton dam. When this dam was built in the 1970s the State Government issued licenses for more water than the dam could ever hold, irrigators of the valley have been fighting to defend their entitlement to take that water ever since.
With no auditing and no proper controls, the water in Copeton dam was over allocated by 100 per cent.
JOHN ANDERSON, FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: The low prestige of the departments and sometimes the ministers who ran this area, an obsession with development, a bit of greed all round, developed into the perfect storm.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: It started off just by Father Christmas you know people came down the river and said how many licences do you want? Give us 30 quid and youve got a licence.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: I got given a 400 acre licence from the Government free of charge. I wasnt very smart and I should have got a lot more but I didnt.
SARAH FERGUSON: John Seery built up his business till he owned nearly 20,000 hectares on three irrigation properties, run by him and his three sons.
In the early days as cotton prices soared, Moree boomed and earned a reputation as cowboy country.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Twenty five years ago it would have been a fair accusation. There were levy banks put up that werent authorized there was storages and pumps put in that werent authorised and things like that. None of that happens today.
(Excerpt of footage of Sarah Ferguson and Stephen Seery talking at a channel)
STEPHEN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: We divert it off this channel -
(End of Excerpt)
SARAH FERGUSON: Seerys son Stephen admits he has helped himself to water when it flooded out on the plain.
(To Stephen Seery) Do you ever steal water?
STEPHEN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Um I wouldnt-dont believe so, no.
SARAH FERGUSON: Do you think you might have done in the past?
STEPHEN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Um maybe we might have borrowed some.
SARAH FERGUSON: Whats borrowing water?
STEPHEN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Its non-returnable.
SARAH FERGUSON: Where did you borrow it from?
STEPHEN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Um oh it was probably flood plain harvesting I guess in the early days.
SARAH FERGUSON: And thats still going on though isnt it?
STEPHEN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Maybe it could be, yeah.
SARAH FERGUSON: When it rains in the Gwydir valley, the water spreads out across the floodplain, just like the Macquarie Valley. Its great for the crops, not so great for a lightweight hire car.
(Excerpt of footage of Sarah Ferguson in the Gwydir valley, a car is stuck in the mud)
Looking at this it doesnt look weve actually got a problem with water.
BRYCE WOODS, ORGANIC FARMER, GRAZIER: Ah, speak to me sometime next year
(Sarah Ferguson and Bryce Woods are seen riding quad bikes around his property)
I'm thrilled with that crop, it was a bit ordinary that one.
SARAH FERGUSON: Bryce Woods property Gallibaray, means full of water, and theres only one way to get about when it rains.
Woods grows organic crops and grazes cattle on the floodplain, he also maintains a small section of wetland.
(End of Excerpt)
BRYCE WOODS, ORGANIC FARMER, GRAZIER: Too much water has been extracted .Too many diversions. The developments on these floodplains are just absolutely mind boggling. Theres just no sense of nature left its just a moonscape.
SARAH FERGUSON: For years the New South Wales State Government turned a blind eye to the practice of taking water off the flood plain.
BRYCE WOODS, ORGANIC FARMER, GRAZIER: We need to have a real revolution. Weve got to get, we must, we must get the banks and levees off the flood plain.
SARAH FERGUSON: So basically people can take more than theyre entitled to?
BRYCE WOODS, ORGANIC FARMER, GRAZIER: Well the way many of these big irrigation developments are set up with the meter systems at the very beginning and none at the other end. And when a flood comes overland and that water is unable to be metered or checked in any way, well yeah absolutely, its very very easy.
SARAH FERGUSON: it would be an understatement to say that Woods is unpopular with the local irrigators.
BRYCE WOODS, ORGANIC FARMER, GRAZIER: Water can be taken out as I said free of charge, thousands of mega litres in some cases. The profits which can be made off of that, you know, can run into the millions and millions of dollars. And this is water thats been taken from downstream users, other people, other farmers, the environment, for personal gain. If this was white collar crime in the city theyd throw away the key.
SARAH FERGUSON: Midweek night at the Moree RSL, a meeting is underway in the back room of the Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association.
(Excerpt of footage of Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association meeting)
GWYDIR VALLEY IRRIGATORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER: At a local level we have once again gone through a tough season with only some reasonable summer rains providing some relief.
SARAH FERGUSON: It looks modest enough, but these famers and their banks have huge sums of money tied up in water.
MICHAEL MURRAY, GWYDIR VALLEY IRRIGATORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER: A conservative estimate would say that theres over a billion dollars worth of water entitlements in this Gwydir valley.
SARAH FERGUSON: The Federal Government has bought $2-million of water in the valley and none of the irrigators is happy about it.
IAN CUSH, GWYDIR VALLEY IRRIGATORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER: We are definitely having to defend ourselves.
SARAH FERGUSON: Against what?
IAN CUSH, GWYDIR VALLEY IRRIGATORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER: Against the water being bought back for what I consider not adequate reasons.
MICHAEL MURRAY, GWYDIR VALLEY IRRIGATORS ASSOCIATION MEMBER: I wonder well why are you buying this water? Do you actually understand what you want it for? Do you know what youre going to use it on? Do you fully understand every time you take one of those licences out, youre taking at least one person off farm and youre taking numerous people out of our towns?
(End of Excerpt)
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: The main fear of some communities is that a radical buy-back quickly, will close down some towns and communities. And that actually may well be the case. But Id ask, Id put the question back to them well what if you dont do a buy-back quickly, what is, whats going to happen then? Youll have exactly the same outcome except it will be stretched over 10 or 15 years.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: its not a good move for our community. Theres been no theres been no economic statement or study done anywhere near accurate on the impact of thats that these things will have on our social economic section of our community.
SARAH FERGUSON: The irrigators think they took enough of a hit when their allocations were cut by new water sharing plans in 2002.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Some of those farms have had to close down purely because of the changes of water sharing plan.
SARAH FERGUSON: John Seery has tried to compensate by buying up water licenses.
So how much have you invested in water recently, or as a total in fact?
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Oh about a hundred million dollars.
SARAH FERGUSON: A hundred million dollars?
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Yes.
SARAH FERGUSON: Its a very high risk strategy isnt it?
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Oh, my word. Yeah, its an high risk strategy and its ah I guess the way, the way Ive lived all my life so, its been a pleasure to be able to be on the planet to do it.
SARAH FERGUSON: Its not just him taking the risk, most of the money is borrowed.
So with a hundred million dollars of debt the banks sweating too I imagine?
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: The banks not feeling comfortable, no banks are, no banks are feeling comfortable.
SARAH FERGUSON: Seery has enough water in his dam to start a small cotton crop this spring, if it succeeds he'll only pay off this years interest on his water loans.
Hes gambling that the drought will break and he doesnt want to see any new policy til then.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: I dont see why the Federal Government and the State Governments couldnt wait until we see what the ramifications of the Water Sharing Plan is over the next 15 years or 10 years or so and then look at buying back particular points of water when we would know what the economics of it sorted out.
SARAH FERGUSON: But can the Murray-Darling Basin system wait that long?
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Oh my word. My word its been here for millions of years now, and itll be here a long time after weve left.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: The referee as I say is Mother Nature. No one is listening to the referee so weve really got to go back and replan the entire system based on the science of the future and not the history of the past.
(Excerpt of footage of John Seery speaking with fellow grazier)
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Whens Stephen gonna start planting do you know?
(End of Excerpt)
SARAH FERGUSON: But for many irrigators like John Seery so much is at stake, they refuse to even contemplate the possibility that this drought could be part of a permanent change in the climate.
JOHN SEERY, IRRIGATOR: Scientists come along today, scientists that are half my age telling me that the history is, this is the first time this has happened in history, thats not correct. The whole thing is under stress and that is our environment in Australia. We live in a damn harsh environment weve got to learn to live with it not try and control it, not try and spend money on it to solve something that's run by nature.
DR TOM HATTON, CSIRO: People are right when they say weve had droughts before, well have them again, whats new? Well whats new is, the extreme condition that that has left the floodplain vegetation in, and in-stream ecology of the Murray-Darling Basin right on from not just the lower lakes but way up the system, both the Darling and in the Murray.
We have trees that are hundreds of years old, in stands that are now 80, 90, 95 per cent dead. That is outside of our experience as managers of this river.
SARAH FERGUSON: In truth, the scientists cannot predict exactly what the rainfall will be, the data they have though does point to one important change.
DR TOM HATTON, CSIRO: The working hypothesis is weve seen a decrease in autumn rainfall. That autumn rainfall is crucial to wetting the catchments up for the winter rains that then come to yield water. Weve missed out on that autumn rainfall in this drought. We think thats the dominant mechanism for the reduced inflows. And its worth noting that that kind of change seems to be consistent with what the global forecast climate models are telling us to expect.
SARAH FERGUSON: The scientists of the Wentworth group say we dont have time to wait and find out how much of the current crisis is due to climate change.
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: What the best science does tell us though, is that our current crisis, both environmental and economic, is manmade. This crisis wouldve happened with climate change or without climate change because we have over-allocated water in the Murray Darling Basin.
SARAH FERGUSON: So what sort of a combination does it make if you layer a change in climate on top of that over-allocation?
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: Profound.
SARAH FERGUSON: Already the flaws in the buy-back plan are becoming evident, and more than anything theyre the flaws of Federation.
Just as the Federal Government was announcing its purchase of water at Toorale, over the border in Queensland events were unfolding that could wipe out some of those gains.
If weve learnt one thing on this trip, its that everyone blames the fellow upstream for taking too much water out of the river. But Farmers just here, south of the Queensland border might have a point. Because just when everyone else is trying to claw back water for the river, Queensland is allowing its farmers to take out more water than ever before.
BILL RIDGE, GRAZIER: As a taxpayer I just dont see that we should be paying that sort of money for, ah for Toorale and just further up the river the developments going hell for leather.
SARAH FERGUSON: Bill Ridge is a 5th generation grazier, his farm sits under the Queensland border on a tributary of the Warrego.
Soon after the sale of Toorale, a number of farms changed hands further up the Warrego in Queensland.
The new owners are planning to develop the properties, and take more water out of the river.
BILL RIDGE, GRAZIER: Theres one thats just been bought now that has never had any development at all. Theres no plough ever been there, theres no water, theres no pumps, and its got a licence thats gone with that property.
SARAH FERGUSON: The Warrego is dry now, no more than a series of pools, but when it flows it comes down from Queensland and into NSW until it meets the Darling River at Toorale.
When we arrived at one of the newly acquired Queensland properties the caretakers were just moving in. Before the sale to a British backed agricultural company, it was renamed Mirage Plains.
But the water theyll be able to take out of the Warrego is no mirage, theyre licensed for up 23,000 mega litres.
Applications for new irrigation works are already in place. They expect to double their take of water from the river.
BILL RIDGE, GRAZIER: Its on paper, its legal, it can be done. But in the environment that we live in at the moment like surely that has to be you know looked at again.
SARAH FERGUSON: When we approached the Federal minister she seemed unaware of what was going on upstream of Toorale.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: The up-river developments I mightve been asked about this in Adelaide but Id have to, Id probably like to look at the detail of that. But can I say broadly, my job is to ensure that the environmental purchase we made is protected and well work with the New South Wales Government to do that, and Id have to look at whats happening upstream.
CRAIG WALLACE, MINISTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER QLD: I think its unfortunate that southern commentators, ill-informed southern commentators, ill-informed southern academics concentrate on Queensland.
SARAH FERGUSON: The Queensland Water Minister refuses to say how much extra water would be taken out if the licenses on the Warrego were developed, and their full entitlements used.
SARAH FERGUSON: I have spoken to a number of farmers who have bought and sold properties on the Warrego and they expect to be taking more water out of the Warrego?
CRAIG WALLACE, MINISTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER QLD: They cannot take more water, we have set a cap on the Warrego, we have had that in place through a moratorium for several years, no more water can be taken than that which is currently allocated to entitlement holders. That is a fact that Queensland has that moratorium in place, this is a no growth plan.
SARAH FERGUSON: Just so I'm clear, youre, youre not actually going to answer the question about how much extra water would be taken for the licences because then.
CRAIG WALLACE, MINISTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER QLD: There is no extra water to be taken from the Warrego, that water is already calculated in the cap, we believe that about 7 per cent of the licences on the Warrego are what are called sleeper licences, those licences occur not only in Queensland but right across the Murray-Darling basin. Why should they be treated any different to sleeper licences or unused allocations in other States?
SARAH FERGUSON: If Toorale was the most high profile purchase so far it will be nothing compared to the anticipated buyback of large irrigation properties in the Condamine-Balonne catchment.
Of the $400-million committed to the buy-backs in the northern basin, $350-million will be spent in Southern Queensland, including potentially the controversial Cubbie station, whose giant storages can hold as much water as Sydney harbour.
According to the CSIRO, irrigators in the Condamine-Balonne use more of the available water than almost anywhere else in the basin.
PROFESSOR MARTIN THOMS, UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA: In the Condamine-Balonne, we know that at St George the mean annual flow has been reduced by 50 per cent, that is because of developments upstream. If we go further downstream to Narren we know that there has been a significant loss of small floods, Narren used to have water in it maybe once every one and two years but now it has extended right out to over ten years.
SARAH FERGUSON: Ed Fessey is a grazier on the Culgoa River, on the NSW side of the border below Cubbie. He says that since the dams went up in Queensland, hes seen the flood plain die.
ED FESSEY, GRAZIER: These trees are Coolabah trees somewhere between three and 400 years old and they have survived the droughts and the flooding rains for the last 400 years. Weve had eight years now, we're due to changed allocations, that these trees havent got water and thats why theyve been perishing.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: The sub catchment of the Condamine-Balonne which has the largest flood plain in Australia on the continent has been completely destroyed by what theyve allowed to happen when the law was silent and the decision makers were all cowboys.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Certainly the history of water ah allocations in the Condamine Balonne doesnt necessarily make for pleasant reading.
SARAH FERGUSON: Right now, the Queensland State Government is in the process of delivering those big irrigators a massive windfall.
Their entitlements are the last in the Murray Darling basin to be converted to licenses that can be bought and sold. But their dollar value will be set according to the size of their storages.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: The bigger the bulldozer and the bigger the bank, the bigger the storage, the bigger the licence youre entitled to. Nothing to do with the impact on the environment or on the largest flood plain in Australia.
SARAH FERGUSON: You are about to reward the people that built the biggest storages thats what youre doing?
CRAIG WALLACE, MINISTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER QLD: Ah the Hume Dam is the biggest storage on the Murray-Darling.
SARAH FERGUSON: Privately held.
CRAIG WALLACE, MINISTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER QLD: Those, those people have an entitlement, why should Queensland irrigators who have an entitlement not have exactly the same entitlement as other irrigators in the Murray-Darling.
Why should a vegetable grower in South Australia, a Lucerne grower in Victoria or a cotton grower in New South Wales have a higher entitlement to water than irrigators or entitlement holders in Queensland?
I ask that question, why should Queensland irrigators be treated differently.
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: There is nothing in Australias history to suggest that all of a sudden State premiers will act in the national interest. And were seeing it most recently the same tired old games of one State blaming another State. The only way to fix Australias rivers is for the Prime Minister to stare them down.
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Look what Ive said to you is that, you know theres a history there, but I dont think my job as Federal Minister is to delve into that history. Ive got to, Ive got to deal with the issues as they as which, hang on, you know in the way theyre presented to me and thats what I'm proposing to do-
SARAH FERGUSON: Its not, the problem is its not all history because youre going to spend taxpayers money on buying back those entitlements just as soon as theyve been granted?
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: What is the alternative approach?
SARAH FERGUSON: The water entitlements on the Condamine-Balonne are currently worth a few thousand dollars each, by the time the process is complete, theyll be worth millions.
ED FESSEY, GRAZIER: The average plumber and electricians going to end up paying some of his tax money to those people who probably shouldnt have had a licence allocated in the first place.
BILL HEFFERNAN, NSW LIBERAL SENATOR: I mean if the Governments that stupid and the taxpayers that generous well good luck to them, but Im saying its a national disgrace.
SARAH FERGUSON: One of those licences is for 469,000 mega litres?
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Yes, Im aware, Im aware of that, of the quantities involved.
SARAH FERGUSON: And do you think that we should be allowing the Queensland Government to turn those into financial instruments and then ask you to buy them back in the next breath?
PENNY WONG, MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER: Ah well, what I what Ive said to you is I think thats all I can say to you.
PETER COSIER, WENTWORTH GROUP OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: Many taxpayers I think find it strange that Government is spending $10-billion to buy water back from irrigators that was originally given away for free. It is the right thing to do. Why is that? Because the over-allocation was made by Governments on behalf of taxpayers. They made a mistake. Governments in the past made very very big mistakes. Someone has to pay for those mistakes.
SARAH FERGUSON: Thanks to the global financial crisis people are now painfully aware that in the end, if the national interest is at stake, it falls to governments to bail out dangerous investments.
It was poor regulation and negligence that allowed so many banks to make those bad investments, it was poor regulation and negligence that put the Murray-Darling in crisis.
Now the best experts in the country tell us weve simply run out of choices.
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Health Care: A new survey shows that ObamaCare is less popular with the uninsured than with the public. How is this even possible?
The January Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows that just 24% of the uninsured approve of ObamaCare. That's down from 40% the month before the reform officially launched in October, and it's a full 10 points below the public's overall favorable rating.
Incredibly, more than twice as many uninsured say they're worse off because of ObamaCare than say it's helped. What's more, just 7% of the uninsured say they tried to get coverage through an ObamaCare exchange. Nearly 60% say they hadn't done anything to get coverage over the previous six months.
Given that Democrats claimed to have specifically tailored it to help the uninsured, these results make absolutely no sense.
Could it be that Democrats grossly misunderstood the population they were trying to help? Or had they'd been peddling lies about the uninsured population for so long — as a way to sell "universal health care" — that they'd come to believe their own propaganda?
It's more likely the latter of the two. Despite the endlessly repeated mantra about 40-plus million uninsured, data have shown for decades the actual ranks of the uninsured were much smaller, and the population less helpless, than Democrats routinely claimed.
As IBD reported, 42% of the uninsured are either non-citizens, eligible for Medicaid, or actually enrolled in Medicaid. Another big chunk earns more than $75,000 a year. And the vast majority of those who lose insurance get it back within a year, about half within months.
Plus, various surveys find that only a tiny fraction — just 5% in the Kaiser survey — say they don't have insurance because of poor health or age.
But admitting that the real uninsured problem is narrow would have undermined the Democrats' goal of "comprehensive" health reform. So they routinely withheld such facts — as did the mainstream press, which is equally as enthusiastic about nationalized health care.
These facts help explain the relative indifference among the uninsured to ObamaCare. So far, only about 11% of those who signed up have been uninsured, although nobody knows for how long. The vast majority were just trying to continue coverage they had before ObamaCare came along.
Why should the uninsured bother? Other than threatening a modest tax penalty, ObamaCare gives them little reason to buy coverage. In fact, it practically begs them not to.
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All across the Northshore, people are gearing up for the temperatures to go way down, and few people are taking it lightly.
It's truly amazing how you realize what you don't have about the time the mercury gets ready to go through the floor.
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"I have a commercial building here, and I am doing it for my home and some properties to protect, also," said David Gaspard, who is gearing up for the cold.
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Seiler, G., Tobin, K. and Sokolic, J. (2001), Design, technology, and science: Sites for learning, resistance, and social reproduction in urban schools. J. Res. Sci. Teach., 38: 746–767. doi: 10.1002/tea.1030
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- Starring: David Gore, Philip Bolden, Trevor Gagnon
- Summary: Fly Me to the Moon is the story of how three ordinary flies, NAT, I.Q. and SCOOTER managed to sneak aboard the Apollo 11 and forever changed the course of history! Not to mention, gain heroic confidence, overcome a few death-defying challenges and just maybe put an end to the notion that "dreamers get swatted." (Summit Entertainment)… Collapse
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Will probably pass muster with very young viewers, but their parents may grit their teeth at its saccharine quality.
The animation IS great and absolutely so fantastic you'll want to reach out and touch the creatures - or swat them off your uncomfortable 3-D glasses.
Would be totally unexceptional if not for its visual telling of the Apollo 11 flight and the fact that the movie is impressively shot - the first animated feature film in 3-D.
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Vietnam's verdant northern region now has a beguiling new tourist attraction.
The Bai Dinh Pagoda, located in a massive valley with several lakes and mountains, has become the country's biggest pagoda at 700ha.
The new attraction is easily accessible for tourists on city breaks to Hanoi, which is just 80km (49.7 miles) away.
Also called Bai Dinh Buddhism Spiritual Centre, it was built to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi (1010-2010).
King Ly Thai To transferred the capital city from Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh to Thang Long (now Hanoi) in 1010.
The new pagoda's entrance gate features two bronze statues of Ho Phap protective deities, and eight bronze statues of Kim Cuong, angels who safeguard Buddhism.
It also boasts Vietnam's biggest bell of its kind, the 36 tonne Dai Hong Chung bell constructed from bronze and gold, which can be heard 10km (6.2 miles) away.
The pagoda's corridors extend for a total of 1km (0.62 miles), housing 500 Arhat stone statues of vast artistic value.
The complex also includes south-east Asia's largest gilded bronze Buddha statue (100 ton). In addition, the tree-packed pagoda complex has the two biggest bells in south-east Asia (36 and 27 ton).
The new pagoda fuses 21st-century craftsmanship with the work of designers who have drawn on the country's rich heritage of ancient Buddhist pagodas.
The pagoda is surrounded by various amazing natural landscapes and "must-see" cultural sites.
The Tam Coc-Bich Dong river-cave complex and Trang An landscapes fall into the first category. The former royal capital of Hoa Lu, the Phat Diem Stone Cathedral and the ancient spiritual tourism complex of the original Bai Dinh Pagoda belong to the second group.
Tourists have to climb 300 stone steps to reach this 11th-century pagoda atop a small mountain summit in Gia Sinh Commune in Gia Vien District.
Bai Dinh means "the worship of heaven and earth, Buddha and celestial angels". Its ornate surroundings and quiet, meditative mountains and forests are conducive to private journeys and group tours alike.
Copyright Press Association 2014
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