Frustrated farmers have taken their protest to scrap the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to the National Farmers' Federation headquarters in Canberra.
Frustrated farmers have taken their protest to scrap the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to the National Farmers' Federation headquarters in Canberra.
Nationals leader Michael McCormack copped a spray from one farmer who said if Mr McCormack did not “grow some spine” his party would be punished by voters at the next election. A local protester told him "we understand the basin plan better than the NFF and politicians. We need to work collaboratively to fix this mess". "The Nationals are dead in the water," she said.
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