Newsflash from ABC News
"The chief executive of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Rob Freeman, has resigned.
Federal Water Minister Tony Burke says Mr Freeman will finish in the job on June 1 and become commissioner of the National Water Commission.
He will be replaced at the authority by Rhondda Dickson, the current deputy secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/My personal opinion is that:
- everyone who opposed Craig Knowles' "Crash through or crash" approach is getting the hell out of there.
- Looks more and more likely that there will be a Irrigator Appeasement Policy in the MDBA, following the massive publicity they attracted to the Draft Plan.
- Good bye Ramsar Wetlands, etc.
- Tony Burke will be happy, as at least he will have "A Plan" - the fact that it will probably return to just a trickle for the River Red Gums and Wetlands is not important to him, for River Red Gums and Wetlands do not burn books on Television.
I sent that notice out privately, and got a request from my Blogging collaborator, Miss Eagle that I post it here.
Her comment is as follows:
- Please put this on The Body Politic.
- I was surprised that Freeman had not gone earlier. Perhaps remained to provide continuity after Mike leaving. Perhaps because he is a public servant.
- Why is he going to the National Water Commission? Is this a backhanded exit, needed to do some good while at the same time allowing Knowles a personal appointment. It need not mean an actual clash with Knowles - it could just mean that Knowles wants his own person in there. So what is special then about Dickson?
Brigid aka "Miss Eagle"
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