Rumour hath it............(4)

There is a rumour doing the rounds in the Clarence Valley that the Senate Rural Regional Affairs and Transport standing committee, inquiring into additional water supplies for south-east Queensland, is being unconscionably tardy.
A number of submissions, addressing proposed water diversion from the NSW Northern Rivers region, have not yet been published.
With one apparently unpublished submission being a professional critique of the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation desktop study, which leaves that study without legs to stand on.