A LAND WORTH SAVING

[heyu]

It looks like Roscoe will be an Alice resident forever.  They tell me if you see the Todd river flow three times then you will never leave.  It was once accepted that you would have to live there all your life to see it flow three times, but once again they are issuing flood warnings.  Save us a couple of buckets full please Ross.

They are also talking about channeling all that excess water into Lake Eyre and making it a permanent inland reservoir.  About bloody time.  Should have happened many years ago.  Every past or present Prime Minister or Politician  still living who could have had some influence in this regard should be standing in court charged with 'NEGLECT OF DUTY"

A LAND WORTH SAVING

One hundred years ago we could have done it
fought this dry brown land....and won it
by turning waters inland from the coast
All that water that we wasted
could by cockies now be tasted
it would be today, our Nation's proudest boast.

And those many dry divisions
could be saved by men with vision
from the sparkling lakes this water would create
and it's own precipitation
would make ours a greener Nation
saving lives instead of generating hate.

The true backbone of our Nation
are those people on the 'Stations'
they're the ones who put the food upon our plates
will we only understand
that those people on the land
should have been protected, when it's all too late?

Will the first ones to complain
when the dust storms hit again
be the Pollies who have got us in this mess
as they sip gins in private bars
about the dust on their nice cars
or their wife, who got some of it on her dress?

How long must we stand by
watching crops and cattle die
as our Pollies vote themselves another raise
Will they stand up to be counted
when the final death toll's mounted
and take the blame for Aussie's darkest days?


heyu

[r. magnay]

G'day Heyu, see you in have a yarn

[zondrae]

Trouble is boys,

Whoever you vote for....you still get a politician in power.   

[The Broomehill-Billy]

Zondrea
A Compassionate Responsible Aussie President would keep it flowing.

[zondrae]

mmm,

Not so sure I agree with the President bit. It seems from history that giving one man that title goes to his head and makes him thing he's in charge. Even more so when they are elected in their own right and not as the leader of a party.  I say this as a rather uneducated observer.  And at the risk of having the sky fall on me I am a Royalist.

[heyu]

G'day Wayne

I reckon our current crop of self serving politicians would consider a Compassionate Responsible Aussie President to be so far removed from their agendas that they would consider it C.R.A.P. which is about the only thing that they are able to keep flowing.  We live in hope.

heyu

[r. magnay]

I reckon being a pollie is a bit like being in office in a club or organisation, no one wants to do it but they are all keen to criticize, and all know all the answers! We live a pretty affluent life and for a country that was built by battlers, there is way too much whingeing and way too little gratitude for my liking!

[James]

I go along with yu Heyu at least it would be something they can't get done off shore, Ross old mate did you see they have shipped another icon overseas. The ROVER mower has taken off. We manufacture very little these days except pollies who have their hands in the cookie jar. We could do the enviroment a bit of good if the federal goverment invested some of the money that goes to Indonesia into a steel mill in W.A. with all the iron ore and natural gas we could export STEEL and there would be less need to use coal in China or India. What about the coal miners , well they could invest over there too. James

[Andrew]

my two bobs worth...


It has always made me think
why, when people want a drink,
do they not go to a place nearer to water?
Instead of optioning to stand
In a dry and arid land
And blaming infrastructure for their slaughter

I agree the nations heart
Lies in those who play their part
And embrace the hard existence on our stations
And some areas can thrive,
But this land will not survive
If we do not work within its limitations

Take the water from the coast?
Seems logical to most
Who want livestock production moving faster
But the long term implications
Are beyond imagination
And have so far just resulted in disaster

Like the snowy mountains scheme
T’was an engineering dream
Given all the benefits it could deliver
But where the lower reaches lie,
The mighty ‘Snowy’ now runs dry
And we have ‘the Murray Creek’ and not the river

And the miles of irrigation
From Murrumbidgee mitigation
Were envisioned as a model of progress
But the soil could not support
The activity we thought
And the salty scalded land is now a mess

There are thousands of examples
Of the way that we have trampled
Through this fragile continent we’ve tried to ‘solve’
But we cannot bend a land
To our transient demands
When it has taken eons to evolve

I think it is a noble thought
That some enterprise be sought
And this land may well fulfil our expectation
But environmental health
Is this country’s ONLY wealth
And its future is our first consideration

h

[therese]

fantastic write andrew.  and so true. 
the pollies claim there isnt the funds to commit, blah blah blah.  cut their highly over inflated wages and especially ridiculous amounts they have given themselves in super, that would be sure to provide the much needed input.
any party that promised to deliver a substantial pay and super cut, would have a foot in the 'parliament house' door.

[Andrew]

What?...pay cut?....relinquish the nest its taken so long to feather?...are you mad?
Altruistic action?...outrageous ! !
trouble is Zondrae got it right and no matter who you elect, you're going to get a politician.

[Bernard de Silva]

Yep...the only "Statesman" left is a multi-national optioned motor car!!

The 'politician' stands behind the country, that's for sure....way, way behind, so the general polpulus don't notice him stuffing his wallet, not to mention other minor things like Nation, ecology and economy...human nature is very hard to escape...too many walls and too many, rabbits??
                                         Bernie.