"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message

The water management of the Murray-Darling basin. (snip)
There was much running around screaming 'something must
be done'. So we have a report from an national independent commission
saying all this and what happens?

The irrigators all take up positions behind the barricades declaring 'take
my water from my cold dead hand'. From some the message is very clear the
commission got the objective wrong, don't re-organise water management so
that the basin can become sustainable. Don't head off the situation where
we all go broke in 30 years time. Do it so that we, here, now keep getting
everything we want and a bit more. If you ever wanted a living example of
the tragedy of the commons this is it.

Yup. A pretty good summation of the idiocy of many of the comments we've
seem from the rural community. Totally NIMBY - stuff someone else's
community/farm/jobs, but leave me and mine alone.