I thought they were celebrating the Indian festival of colours known as Holi Holi, which is celebrated in India in March when there is spring in India and autumn in Australia.

On the day of Holi you can throw colours or coloured water on anybody, be they the Prime Minister of India or any other dignitary. The Prime Minister and the other dignitaries call the people on the Holi day to throw colours or coloured water on the them.

They consider it a matter of honour.

Western people who are in India on Holi day enjoy this when people throw colours or coloured water on them Holi is festival of happiness in India and the Indians enjoy it very much.

Niall Blair pulled off a magic trick at the recent water debate in Griffith.

He pretended to be an angry farmer railing against government. He complained about the draining of the Menindee Lakes; illegal water theft/ lack of monitoring in the Northern Basin; and too much Southern Basin water being lost to South Australia. He promised to champion all these causes for Griffith farmers.

Newsflash Niall Blair. You are the Minister for Water in NSW. Your government has been in power for eight years. All the water mismanagement, corruption and bad decisions happened under your watch.

Judge the Nationals on what they've done to you over the past eight years. Not on what they say during an election campaign.

In the final dying days of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government, Labor introduced and passed legislation to extract an extra 450 gigalitres from the Murray Darling Basin.

The simple aim of the legislation was to hurt the Coalition when they took office - as they hold most seats of the irrigation areas of the Murray-Darling Basin.  

Given we are entering the campaign phase for the state and federal government elections, it is important to remember that each and every one of us who live in the Murray-Darling Basin are being impacted by people with vested interests outside this region trying to purposefully hurt political enemies. 

With the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray Darling Basin recommending increased water buybacks, one must ask, if we see a change in the federal government, are irrigation areas likely to be demonised to hurt political opponents?

Are areas like Griffith and Leeton going to be collateral damage in an unfair political battle lead by South Australia?  

I know I am concerned for the future of this region.

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