AMT455-Government Engineered floods. Forced easements. The Plan to Flood Out Farmers and Ranchers | As a Man Thinketh

Engineered floods. Forced easements. Expanded buybacks.
Australia’s Murray–Darling Basin is ground zero in a new battle over water — and farmers say they’re the ones being sacrificed to “save the river.”
In this Yanasa TV investigation, Charlie Rankin breaks down the NSW Government’s plan to raise the Murrumbidgee River to 40,000 ML/day, intentionally flooding private farmland through new inundation easements, while Canberra expands its water buybacks far beyond the original 100 GL cap.
Farmers warn of severed paddocks, crop losses, blocked laneways, stranded stock, and long-term property value collapse.
Government officials promise it’s all “voluntary.”
But when your land is mapped inside a flood corridor — how voluntary is it really?
We’ll explain:
What “engineered flooding” actually means
What the new NSW Easements for Inundation Bill does
Why expanded buybacks threaten Basin towns
The 28,000-person class action against the MDBA
What farmers want (and what they’re not being told)
The economic consequences for rural Australia
This isn’t just about rivers — it’s about the future of agriculture, food security, and rural communities.
You can’t save a river by destroying the people who live beside it.
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Starring: Charlie and Shuana Rankin