But if only her partner "manned up" and supported her, if only her family pushed aside their pride and shame of their daughters unplanned pregnancy and supported her, if only her work gave her a break and kept her job available for her, and if only the community supported more ladies experiencing crisis pregnancy, then she would not have to experience the emotional, psychological and physical pain of losing a child.

To mothers who have lost children to abortion, we as a community apologise to you for not supporting you during your pregnancy and pray that ladies experiencing crisis pregnancy today receive the support they deserve.

The Federal Member for Nicholls, Damian Drum, accepts we have serious flaws with the Basin Plan. He expressed concern recently that we are prioritising fish over farmers, and highlighted the fact that we are wasting 800 to 900 gigalitres of water a year through evaporation in the Lower Lakes. We keep filling the lakes with precious fresh water, despite a recent scientific report which tells us they were traditionally estuarine. The NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro quite correctly says it's time for South Australia to pull its weight with the Basin Plan.

"When it comes to making a call between keeping critical water available for communities along the Murray River and Murrumbidgee, or filling the Lower Lakes with fresh water, it is a no brainer," he said. And he's right. Why would we squander such vast quantities of our most precious resource?

The NSW Water Minister, Melinda Pavey, wants to know why we are using valuable stored water (from Hume and Dartmouth Dams) for Adelaide's water supply, when the Federal Government funded a desalination plant for the SA capital. "The desalination plant in Adelaide needs to be ramped up to full production now," she said, as this would mean 100 less gigalitres would be taken from the Murray-Darling, for Adelaide and it could be used to ease the plight of NSW Murray irrigators who are on zero allocation.

One Nation Senators have also been highlighting the madness of the current approach, with Senator Malcolm Roberts lamenting that we have sent huge quantities of fresh water straight past farmers "to South Australia to evaporate in a naturally marine estuary, artificially made into a freshwater lake".

So why, then, do we have a federal water minister stating the plan is a "compromise ... which provides communities with certainty", when everyone with knowledge of the Plan and the Basin knows this couldn't be further from the truth? That was not long before his Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie stated the plan has been developed "to ensure those communities that live and raise families in basin communities can look forward to a sustainable and prosperous future". Who is she trying to kid?

Then we have the Environment Minister Sussan Ley, also Member for Farrer. So what is she doing to protect her constituents, after telling them constantly during the election campaign that water was her number one priority? Well, you tell me and we'll both know. It would appear that those who sit around the cabinet table have been told the Basin Plan is too hot to touch. Let's hope it rains and the problem will go away, seems to be their approach. But it won't go away. It's an unmitigated disaster and will remain a disaster until they pluck up the courage to fix it.

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