Vale the Lower Lakes and Coorong, South Australia

Pelicans at Coorong

and the Lower Lakes

Federal Water Minister,

Penny Wong says that

there is no water left

to save Coorong and

the Lower Lakes.

Greg Hunt, the Coalition Shadow Minister for Environment has the audacity to attempt to lay the blame solely at the Rudd Government's door.

Despite the increased urgency of expert warnings of impending disaster, for over a decade the Liberals and Nationals dragged their feet on the issue of environmental water flow for the Murray Darling river system - they more than anyone else are responsible for the imminent death of the Lower Murray.

The Howard Government obviously had the constitutional power to force the issue, however by the time of its electoral defeat last November it had done almost nothing except play politics in the media over the issue.