Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Barnaby Joyce seeking to ‘drive a stake through the heart’ of Murray-Darling Basin Plan" video.

  1.  Yuck Foutube  https://www.mdba.gov.au/water-management/managing-water/water-markets-trade Basin state and territory governments are responsible for: determining water allocations developing policies and procedures for trade monitoring water use developing water resource plans that set the rules for sharing water between users and the environment day-to-day trade operations such as trade applications and approvals.
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  2.  Yuck Foutube  Hint: Water first became a tradeable commodity in some parts of Australia in the 1980s.
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  3.  Yuck Foutube  Barnaby is repeating the report released in January 2019 by the Productivity Commission that found, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority should be broken up.
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  4.  Yuck Foutube  Under the Howard Government, MDBA was established under the Water Act 2007 which aims to fulfill Australia's obligations under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (entry date 21 December 1975, convention held in February 1971, signed on 2 February 1971). Blame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorton_Government Blame Howard's government for continuing Ramsar Convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gorton Gorton has conflicts against the right-wing of the Liberal party. The entire Gorton-to-Howard chain needs to be reviewed. Gorton is a "Malcolm Turnbul" in 1970s. The report released in January 2019 by the Productivity Commission that found, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority should be broken up.
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  5.  Yuck Foutube  https://watersource.awa.asn.au/business/assets-and-operations/foreign-ownership-of-water-assets-revealed/ The current situation with Australia's water entitlements. Also, read https://cdn.tspace.gov.au/uploads/sites/79/2019/02/2018-Register-of-foreign-ownership-Water-entitlements.pdf 19 percent of QLD's surface water entitlements are owned by foreigners.
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