{"id":45758,"date":"2019-04-29T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=45758"},"modified":"2022-05-02T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T02:59:44","slug":"fiery-farrervotes-pastoralist-blasts-sussanley-backs-indie-mack4farrer-jansant-reports-on-watergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/fiery-farrervotes-pastoralist-blasts-sussanley-backs-indie-mack4farrer-jansant-reports-on-watergate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery #FarrerVotes pastoralist blasts @sussanley, backs indie @Mack4Farrer: @jansant reports on #Watergate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mcbride.png?resize=800%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mcbride.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mcbride.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mcbride.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mcbride.png?resize=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Independent candidate for Farrer Kevin Mack and Rob McBride. Photo: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Influential pastoralist Rob McBride (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@TolarnoStation (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TolarnoStation\" target=\"_blank\">@TolarnoStation<\/a>) whose video drew attention to the Menindee fish kill has thrown his support behind Independent candidate Kevin Mack (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@Mack4Farrer (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mack4Farrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Mack4Farrer<\/a>) in Sussan Ley&#8217;s (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@sussanley (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sussanley\" target=\"_blank\">@sussanley<\/a>) NSW rural seat of Farrer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McBride has made a series of passionate calls for voters to elect Independents who support a Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and water buy-backs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with <em>No Fibs<\/em>, McBride sent a clear message to the current Liberal Member for Farrer:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>For Sussan Ley, look, it&#8217;s time for another occupation because when you did not protect your constituents \u2014 and you clearly didn&#8217;t \u2014 then it&#8217;s time to move on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>McBride made his initial call for voters to back Independent Kevin Mack on Facebook community group Voices For Farrer (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@VoicesForFarrer (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoicesForFarrer\" target=\"_blank\">@VoicesForFarrer<\/a>) then posted to Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AN ELECTION MESSAGE FROM OUR FRIENDS &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TolarnoStation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TolarnoStation<\/a> was in Farrer until boundary redistribution. Owner Rob McBride famously used a video to show the world the ecological disaster of a million dead fish in the Lower Darling. He is endorsing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mack4Farrer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mack4Farrer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ovml9moRrY\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ovml9moRrY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zStwGrZbyj\">pic.twitter.com\/zStwGrZbyj<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ????VoicesForFarrer (@VoicesForFarrer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoicesForFarrer\/status\/1121275202514460674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>There was 70 gigalitres of water that was going to come down the Darling and potentially the bad guys said: &#8216;Oh no we need it in the northern basin because we might lose 180 jobs in industries&#8217;. Sussan Ley was at the forefront of voting to keep the water in the northern basin which means it didn&#8217;t come down past Bourke. Our Darling River system dried up and her constituency on the Murray are being crucified because they&#8217;ve got no water entitlements this year&#8230; if there&#8217;s no water coming down the Darling the poor bastards are going to be killed.<\/p><cite>Rob McBride<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4>&#8216;We are apolitical&#8217;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ley accused McBride on Twitter of wanting &#8220;water to go down to South Australia right? Where you live&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the McBride family has been prominent pastoralists in South Australia for over 150 years and has farmed on Tolarno Station at Menindee in NSW since 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ley also inferred McBride was in bed with the Greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think I know the irrigators in my electorate. And the pressure your plans would place them under. And I\u2019m pretty sure they would run a mile from your agenda. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCNOLyJZR9\">pic.twitter.com\/XCNOLyJZR9<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Sussan Ley (@sussanley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sussanley\/status\/1121668811894079488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>We worked hard in our region to get the Shooters and Fishers in on a state level&#8230; we&#8217;ve been supporting a number of Independents and Jeremy Buckingham as a Green. We are apolitical, I do not support a political party. At Tolarno Station we support the people who are going to do the right thing by the river.<\/p><cite>Rob McBride<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I don&#8217;t care if you wear a pink tutu, if you&#8217;re going to protect the river system we&#8217;re going to be talking and we&#8217;re going to be supporting you 100 per cent.<\/p><cite>Rob McBride<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2477-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2477.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2477.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2477.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2477.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2477.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Rob McBride. Photo: Rob McBride<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4>River system &#8216;collapse&#8217;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>According to McBride, Mack is very switched on and aware that Darling and Murray River users have to work together because if there&#8217;s no water coming down the Darling then the Murray gets &#8220;crucified&#8221;. He believes the Murray-Darling River system is in a state of collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McBride also raised concerns that Native Title water rights of the Barkindji People are being ignored and this was having severe impacts on their health and culture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTolarnoStation%2Fvideos%2F2353689001362584%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influential pastoralist Rob McBride (@TolarnoStation) whose video drew attention to the Menindee fish kill has thrown his support behind Independent candidate Kevin Mack (@Mack4Farrer) in Sussan Ley&#8217;s (@sussanley) NSW rural seat of Farrer. 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