Farmers have been dudded for too long when it comes to water and Tom Harris wants to change it.
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Katter’s Australian Party NSW senate candidate said he would fight to rework the Murray-Darling Basin plan (MDBP) to “give water back to the irrigators”.
“It was originally set up as a three-way correlation – equally between social, economic and environment,” the farmer said.
“But it is more focused on the environment with little regard for the social and economic aspects.
“The big thing here is water.”
Katter’s Party may not have a candidate in Griffith this election, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be one in the future.
“I hope so,” Mr Harris said on whether the Katter’s Party would put a Farrer candidate in the election next time around.
“If we can get a bit more organised.”
Mr Harris was in town earlier this week, talking to farmers and spreading the word of the party.
He said it was important people knew what the party stood for.
“We're trying to get word out, let people know we're here and that we're serious,” he said.
“That we've got good policies for the betterment of the country.”
Mr Harris said the party backed farmers, even if it didn’t benefit the party in any way.
“Bob (Katter) was the only one here to state his case and fight for the irrigators,” he said.
“And in the end, he had the rug pulled out from him, which was unfortunate.”
Spreading the word of policy wasn’t the only talking point for him.
He said it was important to have some different faces get elected.
“What I'd like to put across is the importance of trying to get more and more independents in the senate," Mr Harris said.
This won’t be an easy feat to accomplish.
Nevertheless, he said himself and the party alike were committed to giving it their all.
“With the way the senate laws have changed with the voting it will make it extremely difficult for someone like me, or anyone from a small party to get in,” Mr Harris said.