Greetings From the Road...

I’m currently sitting at the Blighty Pub with the last remaining dairy farmers from this region. Laughter emanates from the bar as the group of humble humans welcome me to a small gathering to discuss what has been happening to their region.

It’s day seven and I’m still in one piece! Yesterday saw the emergence of my first blisters, but they pale into insignificance to the pain and suffering caused by this destructive government policy.

Community after community, farmer after farmer, school after school, and sporting club after sporting club all tell the same story – a perfect storm of economic, social and environmental destruction.

Sadly, it’s all the things the Government and the various departments already know. These people are the collateral damage of a political plan, one that ignores the triple bottom line and best available science, for votes or modelled objectives.

The real hero of the walk is the people. Warm, big hearted, generous people. 

Each day, I encounter the best of human-kind. People stopping on the roadside, calling in to the mobile bar, dropping in goods and making donations.

These are the people who make our communities what they are. The backbone of our country.

A dying breed, endangered through stupidity, politics and greed.

A national disgrace, in my humble opinion.

Lloyd’s Walk for Water is a 303 kilometre trek across the Riverina to raise awareness of the disastrous impacts of the Murray Darling Basin Plan on Northern Victoria and Southern New South Wales.