For instance, 'tax payer', has responded to the story: 'Feds buy $303m of Twynam water', saying:

"After all the money that has been thrown around to try and stimulate the economy, this money has been spent to kill a huge part of the economy permanently.

"Businesses like mine rely on businesses like Twynam spending a few bob on machinery every few years. We can put up with temporary droughts but permanent decisions by naive and illinformed politicians will have a lasting effect.

"Nation building infrastructure and projects that have secured wealth for regional Australia have just been given away.

"To all of our ancestors who busted their guts to develop this great land we are sorry that we have given in to the foolishness of this current government.

"To the future generations who will have to make a life in another region of Australia or overseas we are sorry.

"To our agricultural competitors in other lands, we have shot ourselves in the foot once again."

But most readers don't blame the Twynam Group itself, rather they blame government policy for spending this money on buying water instead of re-building the Murray-Darling irrigation infrastructure first, to improve efficiency and so save even more water.

For instance, Jimim says:

"Don't blame Twynam for making a commercial decision that is available to them.

"Blame the total rural community for not getting together and causing enough trouble for the government to have to take notice."