Well said TnC2. Accurate analogy. The big cotton growers...

Well said TnC2. Accurate analogy. The big cotton growers currently in court for allegedly stealing billions of litres of water during drought are the biggest donors to the electoral funds of one of the major rural political parties. How do we wee minnows win? This disgarceful practice where 100's of thousands of dollars is poured into the electoral funding of the pollies and also tax deductible to the dodgy donors is an absolute disgrace and these practices take away water opportunities of miners and other legitimate businesses. Mines need water. Getting off the Boda track a bit but it is also good to see northern NSW farmers suing the state govt for poor forest management that caused huge fire losses to rural operations recently. Hopefully in light of the mismanagement by respective governments the worm will turn and at future elections they get severely punished for their historical poor water, fire, drought, back-burning, forest mismanagement etc???.