Bundaberg Fruit & Vegetable Growers CEO discusses the impact of the Paradise Dam rebuild. Video supplied.
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00:00 We're here today at Paradise Dam. Over four years ago the Labor Government gave the farmers
00:06 in the Bundaberg region five days notice that they were going to pull the plug on this dam
00:11 wall behind me, that they were going to reduce the water to 45% of its original capacity.
00:17 Now there's 8,000 jobs that are heavily reliant on agriculture in the Wide Bay region and
00:22 tens of thousands of jobs that are indirectly reliant on agriculture in that region as well.
00:27 What we need is a secure water system. We need to ensure that this dam wall is reinstated
00:33 to its full supply level and that's to protect the Bundaberg region, the people that work
00:38 in the Bundaberg area and the food on your plates.