ANGRY opponents of the north-south pipeline will converge on Yea on October 26 to demand the Victorian Government axe the project.

Anti-pipeline group, Plug the Pipe, has enlisted South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon as the keynote speaker at the rally, which will begin at 11am.

Deb Bertalli, the Glenburn woman arrested on her family's property late last month for obstructing pipeline surveyors, will also speak.

Plug the Pipe spokeswoman Jan Beer said as a vocal campaigner for finding water for the Murray, Senator Xenophon was a logical choice to speak.

"The Victorian Government's environmental folly of progressing with the . . . pipeline will become apparent to everyone, especially those who live along Victoria's most degraded river, the Goulburn."

Senator Xenophon will also speak at a Rural Press Club of Victoria lunch at the Hilton on the Park in East Melbourne on October 31. The lunch is open to the public. For bookings phone (03) 9696 5899.