A single NSW Supreme Court judge has found against the MDBA depriving 28,000 farmers of irrigation water in a $1.5 billion class action claim. Where was the jury? Pic Daily Digest

The Legal Gun:Destruction Won! “Waive” it goodbye Albo

Courts with a single judge and no jury, civil or criminal, have always cast doubts on obtaining justice. All members of the judiciary are appointed by political party governments therefore justice can never be untainted by political ideology

By Jeanine Bird, Leeton

When 28,000 farmers take the Uniparty’s1 precious Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to court, you’ve gotta think there might just be a problem! Just a weeny one!

Readers won’t be surprised to know that the farmers just lost a $1.5b court case, because the MDBA apparently doesn’t hold any duty of care to water licence holders, who actually pay their exorbitant wages.

The trigger was just a small matter of the policy the MDBA have of what they call “over bank watering”. This is running the (Murray) river high enough with “environmental water” so that it floods over the banks to water the River Gums on the way to the Southern Ocean. The gums have survived at least 200+ years without the MDBA, but the UN apparently told them they can mitigate “climate change” if they do that.

In flooding public land though, it floods private (farmers) land out too. It’s not an unintended consequence though – farmers have warned them this would happen often enough, but they persist. Then there’s the small matter of the Barmah Choke – in their initial “climate change modelling” the MDBA said they could run it all the way down to sea in South Australia at a high rate. The problem that all the locals down there knew all along was that it couldn’t possibly fit through the Choke!

It’s like filling a bath-tub with a fire hydrant and expecting the plug-hole to cope. A two-year old could tell you what was going to happen, but in about 20 years of telling the MDBA in their numerous so-called “consultations”, it still didn’t get through. To the MDBA I mean. Neither did it go through the Barmah Choke.

We’ll leave alone the reasons for having to run it out to sea in South Australia – but the argument is as stupid as “there’s a drought in the Southern Ocean so we need to tip a measly bit of river water into it to top it up.”

So, in pushing too much water down the river, those farmers above the Barmah Choke got flooded out with repeated flooding of the Barmah Forest in the 2018 and 2019 summers. They lost livestock and crops, and due to flooding, couldn’t get onto their land to do anything either.

Many farmers below the Choke couldn’t grow a crop because they had zero allocation. Why? Because the river was so full of environmental water there was no room for productive water! (We have genius management, as readers can see!) Farmers argued that the water they wasted watering the forest could have gone to the farmers to produce a crop. It’s so “efficient” too: the MDBA admitted they lose 36-41% of the water volume in over-bank waterings!

However, food security isn’t high on Albo’s2 agenda, nor the MDBA’s because they’re following Agenda 21/30, and WEF3 of course ….. you’ll own nothing and be happy by the time we’ve finished you! We don’t need agriculture, we have zee bugs to eat! Who needs jobs? Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari of WEF fame would be very proud. They are squashing those resourceful, efficient and innovative farmers at last!

NSW Supreme Court judge Tim Faulkner4 dismissed the 28,000 farmers case. He handed down his judgment where he found the MDBA owed individual water entitlement holders no duty of care whatsoever in terms of their financial/economic loss. Interestingly, he found the MDBA’s role was to manage the wider MDB system and balance competing interests as opposed to owing individual irrigators a legal duty to protect them from financial loss.

In this whole sad and sorry MDBA/Water Act (2007) period of our history, this figures, because they’ve set up a heap of smaller water “authorities”, both State and Federal, and the idea is to be able to pass the buck between them all, so nobody is responsible for anything at the end of the day.

Remember too, that the Water Act which spawned the MDBA was a fraudulent Uniparty Act all along – Malcolm Turnbull5 was the architect of it and Tony Burke6 was all over its implementation. They used the External Affairs power of the Constitution to write in international agreements, Ramsar being the predominant one, thus avoiding a referendum. Since then, the Government told us (2011) that “In summary, the general purposes of the Water Act and the Basin Plan are: To give effect to relevant international agreements”. Therefore, readers will understand that our communities are not a priority – the UN and it’s gobbleopoly mates are (such as Turnbull’s Goldman Sachs mates and others of the same ilk who want control of our water).

They have the unlawful gun, and “Destruction” won.

Sophie Baldwin, CEO of Southern Irrigators said this loss was another kick in the guts for farmers, who were claiming $1.5 billion in losses, damages, costs and interest from the MDBA.

It matters not that the MDBA admitted they didn’t even follow their own system operating rules and hid critical information from the public. Furthermore, the MDBA’s ONLY two people who had the authority to authorise the release of the environmental water, were not involved!!

Apparently though, this incompetence is totally acceptable and to hell with the 28,000 farmers and the communities that rely on them! Big bucks, no responsibility. Oh, for a job like this in the public service!! They wouldn’t survive without income for a year or two like they expect farmers to!

One more thing Sophie Baldwin noted was the class action threw light on the fact that the MDBA’s ONLY “expert” on river operations “was not a river operator, had never been a river operator and did not have the intimate knowledge and expertise of a river operator.”

Readers can see the extremely competent “expert” management that put these farmers at risk. It will give you some understanding of what people living in the MDB and fighting this incompetence for the last 20 years are up against.

It’s no different to our “Fire the Liar” PM. Albo’s so competent he thinks the economy’s going great guns! Housing is unavailable and equity is fast dropping. Our power costs have gone down too! Albo promised a reduction which didn’t happen, but hallelujah, we’re saving with all this ruinaBull energy!

Nevermind energy costs are putting small business out of business quick-smart. Prices just keep going up and up, yet these gobbleopoly EnergyCo’s run over budget as Transgrid has just done, then asks the taxpayer to stump up for $1.2 billion. Or they collapse like globalist Prof. Ross Garnaut’s little energy company, ZenEnergy did, owing $1b. Others get onsold 3-4 times and/or collapse the first one so there’s no liability. Then mug taxpayers via Councils are going to have to clean up the mess. Nobody’s responsible or accountable. But things are going so well. It’s the same playbook everywhere within (Albo’s) Uniparty.

So, Watt’s Murray7 going to do about it? 28,000 farmers Vs one Bully Boy government “authority” that’s never taken notice of anyone out in the bush where all the production happens to fund the bullies, says it all.

If we’re going so well Albo, then you can afford to waive the legal fees and costs that have been awarded against the 28,000 farmers.

You really should waive it Albo, in a nod to the MDBA’s incompetence.

  1.  Uniparty – Labor Party/Greens and the Liberal/National Party on the same page
  2.  Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, MP
  3.  WEF – World Economic Forum
  4.  https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/1a042a43fe69a473dd69b54f
  5.  Malcolm Turnbull – Minister for Environment and Water in (Lib) Howard govt Jan-Dec 2007. Architect of the Water Act (2007). PM Sept 2015-Aug 2018
  6.  Tony Burke, Labor Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry in 1st Rudd govt, 2007-10,. Min for Sustainability, Environment, Water & Population in Gillard govt 2010-13. Oversaw the implementation of (Liberal) Malcolm Turnbull’s Water Act (2007).
  7.  Murray Watt, current Minister for the Environment and Water

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17 thought on “Single judge decides against 28,000 Murray Darling irrigator’s class action”
  1. Sent to Sophie Baldwin a few minutes ago
    Hello Sophie
    Whilst reading the article below about the MDBA  class action decision I was minded to wrote to you to ask if the decision is to be appealed, which I think it should.
    https://cairnsnews.org/2026/09/05/single-judge-decides-against-28000-murray-darling-irrigators-class-action/
    “It matters not that the MDBA admitted they didn’t even follow their own system operating rules and hid critical information from the public. Furthermore, the MDBA’s ONLY two people who had the authority to authorise the release of the environmental water, were not involved!!”
    The above-quoted paragraph means that a BREACH OF CONTRACT has occurred and the Members of the Board involved must accept full commercial liability for their dubious actions.
    There is no doubt that the MDBA is a business, and not a lawful government department.
    This business status is evidenced by the MDBA’s ABN Number, which can be seen directly below:
    Murray-Darling Basin Authority
    https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=13679821382
    The MDBA will, of necessity, have to be insured lest they cannot legally trade.
    To that effect, it might be a good idea to find their insurer and make a claim, as I doubt that the decision can be prevented that claim being lodged and processed, and you are taking the MDBA on a commercial liability basis, which is applicable to any commercial trading entity, which is what the MDBA, its corporate registration status being the admission of that.
    With an appeal in progress your claim might likely have even further prospects of success, because it is straight commercial liability you are pursuing, and especially if you use the information in the INSTRUCTIONS document, which I have provided for you in the attachments.
    That document is a distillation of the document linked below, Anna von Reitz being a retired Alaskan Supreme Court Justice and seriously intelligent woman:
    https://annavonreitz.com/commerciallien.pdf
    From the INSTRUCTIONS document you will see all the rules/Laws that a company like the MDBA is subject to. Please use it wisely.
    And from my this article you will learn how I held my local corporate council to their commercial liability:
    https://cairnsnews.org/2024/01/09/council-watch-groups-bleat-about-unaccountability-but-reject-liability-solution/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KP7wWobRjA
    And here, you wills see how this young lass beat the government with the information presented in my video:
    The Question of Liability:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KP7wWobRjA
    This liability is the best kept secret ever, Sophie, And the best magic trick to perform is look up any and government department and political party, as they will all be found on ABN Lookup almost without 
    exception.
    That should tell you something very serious and also very advantageous if used correctly.

    The secrets are;
    -JURISDICTION;
    -CONTRACT;
    -LIABILITY
    There can be no JURISDICTION without CONTRACT (even in the Courts) and any contract 
    comes with full commercial liability inescapably attached. 
    So best regards, and best of luck with any further endeavours to do with the MDBA.
    Hopefully you will be launching that appeal.

  2. Sorry, brianjanz, but all lawyers and Justices (lawyers wear a wig) the NDBA are all part of the system that has not the interests of any of us plebs at heart (if they indeed have one?) And the farmers are too conservative to realise what I just said above. They go the lawyers, not knowing that the lawyers are there to support the System, not the client. The client is just the one who pays their outrageous fees.
    FYI: a justice is supposed to n=be acting in a lawful court.
    The Judge wears a wig to hide his thoughts from God.
    This is American, but the BAR Association is everywhere, so this video counts here:
    https://odysee.com/@AussieFighter:8/PRIVATE-ATTORNEY-GENERAL,-ADRIANA-ESTEVEZ-ON-THE-RISE:3

  3. There is only one way we are ever going to get justice in this sad land of ours…. it is the DUTY of each one of us to stand and challenge any bad government or court decision. A ruling by a single “judge” in a court with no jury is a kangaroo court. They were banned in the 1600’s, but then the UK Parliament, in all it’s ‘wisdom’, decided to allow lawyers back into parliament, and then allowed kangaroo courts to be used against the people to enrich the ‘ruling class’. Well, the ruling class has betrayed us and now it is time for accountability. Here’s an idea. GovCorp in collusion with local councils have been putting spy cameras everywhere in public, tracking our movements, and intruding on our PRIVACY!!!! So, I say it’s time for us to do the same. Let’s gather groups of our fellow civilians and attend local council meetings. But don’t just sit there. Take out your phones and start recording each councillor. And then follow them wherever they go, filming them all the time. They have made our lives a misery. Now it’s time for us to return the favour. Follow them. Record them. Invade their PRIVACY. Don’t give them a moment’s peace. Hound them out!!!!

  4. So if you’re going to seek a fair go from a govt why would you insist and persist with a show where your facts are determined by a single government-appointed official rather than by a jury of your peers?? So you have no choice, you might say? But then why would you insist and persist with the no choice show too?

  5. Spot on John.

    Perhaps the Judge should be reminded of the “Kable Principle” (Forge v ASIC HCA)

  6. The UN said they could mitigate climate change by running the water to the ocean.
    Where did the UN get the authority to make that decision?
    Why did the MDBA obey?
    And why did the judge go along?
    Did the farmers have the wrong lawyers and barristers?
    An appeal will have to take place.

  7. It just goes to show us all how much of a stuff the government actually cares about the people of this country.
    A very serious country friend told me, last week, that the ineffectual farmers federations like the NFF and VFF, were created by the grubberment to be sham representative crowds, just like the MDBA seems to be.
    And he would not be wrong. For your viewing pleasure, obvious_bob’s wrap-up on what he thinks about those farmer rep crowds:
    https://rumble.com/v45pcpk-have-business-and-agriculture-representative-groups-actually-done-their-job.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_upp_a
    With plenty of juicy links for you to follow about the sellout of our resources.

  8. I posted, many times, on the Menindee Facebook pages, at the time of the fish kills, that the farmers should hold the MDBA to their Charter, as they would have been in breach of it, and therefore liable for the losses incurred, breach of contract being a favourite, and applicable, concept I preach.
    The federal government would be the same, as the Constitution is the contract binding the Grubberment, but they ignore it, though if done correctly a Constitutional issue could be brought. More on that another time, maybe.
    But the farmers kept rattling on about policy, me telling them that “policy”, which is a corporate caper, inescapably comes with full commercial liability attached, as part of and policy-related agenda/action/determinations-whatever.
    As the Constitution says, in Section 100, I told them: “everyone has the right to fair use of the water, for irrigation and conservation (which I would say the authors of Constitution would have meant: conservation means storage}.
    But the farmers, conservative beings that they generally are, would not go for the liability angle.
    In any event, any court with a single Justice (it was) or Judge is a Star Chamber, and an unlawful court.
    So the decision should be rendered unlawful and flawed, and the whole show start over again, with the MDBA Board Members accused of Breach of Charter and contract also, and their actions totally out of order.
    Same with the federal grubberment.
    But someone has to bring the action.

  9. All arrangements in Australia are transitional, ultimately will be subject to UN governance via treaties from Geneva.
    The Australian Government’s Department of Finance currently classifies the MDBA as a “Corporate Commonwealth Entity”, with ABN 13 679 821 382.
    The Water Act uses the words “body corporate” and gives the MDBA corporate powers, while also treating it as a public authority constituted under Australian law for taxation purposes.
    All treaties with the fraudulent UN need to be cancelled/annulled, because the UN has been captured by fascists and represents commercial interests, not the nations it claims to.
    Look at Elbow’s failed excursion to Fiji to dole out ClimateChange™ compensation, China would have to dole out 100x as much so nearly all the small island countries stayed away, they were too scared, they would get a missile test. The whole ClimateChange™ racket comes through UN agencies.
    btw
    Trump cannot rename the Pacific ocean “The American Ocean” because he is bogged in Persia, trying to get their central bank under control of his masters the Rotschilds, who he owes bigtime for bailing him out in Atlantic City. He likes to act a bit mad. Everybody knows “Weapons of Mass Destruction” is a fraud but they aren’t allowed to talk about forcing Persia into the BIS system. All the pacific stuff is therefore on hold, including the Vietnam/Philippines Seas, Taiwan and the PRNK.

  10. The ‘judge’ is enforcing statutes and codes, therefore is not a judge but an ‘Administrator’. Just hang the ‘high priest of Baal’ and all his Freemason mates and bring back common Law. Why didn’t anyone one point out the Emu and Kangaroo Seal is fraudulent, as removing the Unicorn and the Lion Seal without a referendum is High Treason. The judges have no constitutional/lawful authority and are all guilty of High Treason, so are lawyers (mediums who speak to and for the ‘dead’, which is the legal fiction, the corporation, the name in all capital letters), taking an oath to the foreign entity the ‘Temple Bar’ then serving in what are supposed to be OUR courts, no, they are theirs, those referred to in John 8:44!

  11. All that water should be evenly distributed free of charge to irrigators so that they can afford to grow the crops to provide the government with a GST income taxable retail produce

  12. Is anyone going to CHALLENGE the JURISDICTION of the COURT? There is NO SUMMARY JURISDICTION without CONSENT! WE the PEOPLE have SOVEREIGNTY. Australia is a COMMON LAW Country and the Magna Carta Monument in Canberra is a real place with a real lesson for all Australians who want to be “one and free”. JURIES R US …… Wake Up, Australia!

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