Bradfield Scheme

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The Bradfield Scheme was devised by Dr. John Bradfield, an Australian engineer, and involved the diverting of water from the upper reaches of the Johnson, Tully, Herbert, Burdekin and Flinders rivers (all Queensland coastal rivers) into the Thomson River on the other side of the Great Dividing Range, creating climate change and rainfall throughout inland Australia ^{[citation needed]}.

Objections to the scheme involve:

• The cost
• The extreme evaporation rate in the interior
• Coastal developments now use much more water than earlier leaving a smaller surplus to divert
• Environmentalists objecting to any changes
• It is only speculation that a climate change would result. Saudi Arabia, which is very dry, is surrounded by seas containing far more water that an enhanced river would provide.

A modified scheme was strongly supported on this site by an independent candidate at the last Australian senate election in Queensland. [1]