Dear Jen
The Adelaide Advertiser has not published your letter to the editor in response to the very crazy claims it published on Saturday from Minister Paul Caica. It published errors of fact and has not corrected them.[1]
The news today in Adelaide is the new Goyder Institute Report which can be downloaded here:
http://www.goyderinstitute.org/uploads/Expert%20Panel%20Final_020412.pdf
This report has been written by some of our most popular scientists including: Aldridge KT, Jolly ID, Nicol J, Oliver RL, Paton DC and Walker KF. This is the same Dr Walker who told the ABC TV Media Watch team that Lake Alexandrina has always been a freshwater lake.
I know this report is going to be demanding more freshwater for South Australia and more freshwater for the Lower Lakes. It will be very popular in Adelaide.
We lost the Grand Prix to Victoria. Now we want their water.
No one wants to hear your sensible practical solution of restoring the Murray River's estuary. In South Australia we just want to complain and we want more water and the Adelaide Advertiser wants to sell more newspapers.
Charlotte Ramotswe.
PS Regarding that Media Watch researcher: Xanthe Kleinig. There is a Kleinig's Hill near the town of Victor Harbour. Should Media Watch have told viewers their chief researcher perhaps had a family interest in more freshwater or told views that this was another Kleinig family? And Kleinig's Producer at Media Watch Lin Buckfield is a member of a band called Bully Girls.
Jennifer:
In the past I've read many posts by you about the Murray Darling basin and related topics. You appeared to me to have something of a "bee in your bonnet", perhaps even an obsession. Time and self-education lead me to conclude I was wrong in my more extreme conclusion, and that there's nothing whatsoever wrong with bees in bonnets. I have a few myself, bird-shredders being one that particularly riles me. I apologise unreservedly for my ill-considered and premature views. I fell below my usual high standard of assessment and conclusion, something I expect, but often miss in others. Mea culpa.