He is aware that the Murray Darling streams would never have dried up during the worst drought scenario if the scheme was implemented back in the 30's when first mooted. Many parts of Queensland and outback NSW would have also been under irrigation as well. Barnaby should realise this matter as a matter of urgency in the National interest as now surely they can see just how dire we are without the water we could have had. At least Barnaby knows how the system would work and he has to somehow get it through the thick heads of his party friends who would rather be the prime winners politically for getting this major works done.

Perhaps Barnaby should find out if there is any one of the Nationals who have other interests to stop such a thing going ahead? Or is it Liberal Party interests? Someone didn't want it then and does someone not want it now?

Can't be the Labor Party as this means jobs and plenty of them for many years to come. Or has the party been that heavily infiltrated that it has lost one of its foundations for its birth? The right to work.

Cloud seeding. Yes Aussie ingenuity again gone. Barnaby should be on top of this one now. Get this program restarted. It's essential. Look at what has just happened to Jakarta. Largest flood in seven years. Why? Because they used cloud seeding to put out the bushfires in the tropical rainforest that had been destroying them and the monsoons would not start. The seeding set them off and more on the way.

It was dumped here by the CSIRO with the excuse they were not sure if it was working or not. Other countries have adopted the system because they found it did work and as you see still in use.

I can remember in the 60's up in the tops when we were in the dry time I could see an old Avro Anson or a DC3 cloud hopping, seeding to get some rains. We didn't get flooded, but we got enough to bide us through.

Many times I have seen those cumulus clouds float over and wasted clouds that could have yielded at least something. The dropping of the program at the time was considered by some as political and the CSIRO reasoning for dropping it was a feeble cover up.

Where's Barnaby here? He should be about the only person left with a bit of good old fashioned Country Party heave ho and the Ian Sinclair bull-headedness to get this program restarted so very desperately now. And tell them, no excuses. Get on with it now. Get a seeding base set up out here now. This airport has more wasted space than the outback and you are all too lazy to do anything with it.

Barnaby's Christmas blow off over the drought shows that he is on the same level as most other farmers.

Frustration is rife. There is pressure all round. He is also aware that this present drought was not caused by climate change. Where's Barnaby?

Bradford scheme.. bring it on. The MD system would never have dried up.

Cloud seeding.. bring it on. This is the driest land on the planet. No excuses this time. You know how to read a cloud and know when it's wasted.