‘Can the Plan’ Co-Organiser Jan Beer says the turnout of farmers demanding the government address the controversial Murray Darling Plan, just shows 'people are incredibly worried about their future'. PMLive
‘Can the Plan’ Co-Organiser Jan Beer says the turnout of farmers demanding the government address the controversial Murray Darling Plan, just shows "people are incredibly worried about their future". On Monday, thousands of farmers from across the country descended on Canberra — demanding the government scrap or amend the plan. "It has taken us so many years to make the media take notice," Mr Beer told Sky News host Paul Murray.
"We also needed to put pressure on the federal politicians to acknowledge that there are so many faults in the Basin plan," Ms Beer said. Ms Beer described the response by the farmers as being "incredible". "I would say there would be four to five thousand people there and we had in excess of a hundred trucks". Ms Beer said the meeting with Water Resources David Littleproud and Environment Minister Sussan Ley left her "with steam coming out of my ears".
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