Bill Shorten uses The Australian to weigh in on the current water crisis that the country is facing, and decides the solution will come with the bringing of that traditional Labor sacrificial lamb - jobs:
It's time to bite the bullet on cotton and rice. Is it really sustainable to keep farming these high-water, flood irrigation, low-yield crops in places such as the parched Murray Darling Basin?
We'll need to help farmers through this period of structural adjustment; in the same way we helped workers and employers in the car industry and the textile industries in the 1980s. The Prime Minister must show some leadership and buy water entitlements from cotton and rice farmers, compulsorily if necessary.
Sounds expensive, but the question must be asked, if we're out spending money on water - and knowing where most of it comes from at the moment - how responsible is it for Bill to completely omit the word 'dam' from his article? This is the equivalence of having a debate on energy (which the Left frequently engages in) and failing to mention that most of it currently comes from burning fossil fuels. But why would Bill Shorten have a tendency to be so forgetful when it comes to water?
Bill Shorten, the national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, is the endorsed Labor candidate for the Melbourne federal seat of Maribyrnong.
Oh, that's right.
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