Menindee fish deaths 'out of NSW Government's hands' says Regional Water Minister Niall Blair

Menindee residents hijacked NSW Regional Water Minister Niall Blair's press conference on the banks of the Darling River today, to vent their frustrations about the latest mass fish kill there.

The Darling River at Menindee is blanketed with dead fish again.

The town in the state's far west has been at the centre of a continuing ecological disaster, amid a spate of fish deaths there in the past two months.

Locals shouted over each other to ask Mr Blair questions, after they woke to shocking images of hundreds of thousands of fish floating on the Darling River.

"The lakes were full!" one yelled before another shouted: "Youse let it go ... What are you going to do about the cotton?”

People in the outback town blame the crisis on water use by cotton irrigators, as well as the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's decision to empty the nearby Menindee Lakes in 2014 and 2017.

Read the ABC News story by Nour Haydar and Paige Cockburn - “Menindee fish deaths 'out of NSW Government's hands' says Regional Water Minister Niall Blair.”

Are the US and Australia declaring climate war on all of Earth? You make it sound so fina

After Australia cynically releases its catastrophic climate data the day before grand final weekend, Ian the Climate Denialist Potato holds a press conference.

From The Guardian - ‘Are the US and Australia declaring climate war on all of Earth? You make it sound so final'.

Malcolm Roberts Denies Climate Science, Rod Culleton Compares Self To Muhammad Ali

Senator Malcolm Roberts presented
 his report to media on Monday.

One Nation certainly had their Weetbix this morning, coming strong out of the blocks on a Monday with Malcolm Roberts issuing a report slamming the CSIRO's climate science and Rod Culleton likening himself to Muhammad Ali.

Roberts had been spruiking his Monday morning press conference all weekend, promising a "major" announcement at 9am. The press conference was to launch his report -- 'On Climate, CSIRO Lacks Empirical Proof' -- taking aim at the climate change science of the CSIRO.

Roberts said he had a meeting in September with "CSIRO senior scientists", which led him to find that the science agency "does not have empirical evidence proving that carbon dioxide from human activity effects climate", that their findings "contradicts the empirical climate evidence", and that their climate computer models are neither appropriate nor recommended to be used to inform government policy".

Read The Huffington Post story - “Malcolm Roberts Denies Climate Science, Rod Culleton Compares Self To Muhammad Ali.”