News - April 2009
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28 Apr 2009 ... AUSTRALIA has become a net importer of fruit and vegetables for the first time.
Melbourne households continue to be hit by higher food bills, with new figures revealing the cost of some basic groceries has increased by more than 8 per ...
28 Apr 2009 ... FOR years, Andrew Bolt has used these pages to argue that the Victorian Government should build more dams.
Business Spectator - The great water rip-off - Blog - Steve Murphy
27 Apr 2009 - The Bracks/Brumby government failed to invest in the future by delivering a long-term sustainable capital works program for water supply over the past ...
27 Apr 2009 ... THE nation's key food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is on the verge of economic collapse as the value of production plunges by at least $5 ...
26 Apr 2009 - Mr Brumby's water pileline is an insult to all Victorians. ... The pipeline shall perpetually stand as a monument to Mr Brumby's misappropriation of ...
25 Apr 2009 - WATER Minister Tim Holding has poured cold water on claims rainwater tanks for ... you can be sure John Brumby will be there for his photo opportunity, ... and greener solution when compared to the north-south pipeline and the huge ..
24 Apr 2009 - Walsh Challenges Labor To Prove Source Of Pipeline Water ... Leader of the Nationals Peter Walsh has challenged the Brumby Government to reveal the source ...
At that rate, Brisbane's population would reach 2 million by October, Melbourne would pass 4 million in December, and Sydney would top 4.5 million about a ...
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Melbourne to get Murray water early. 23.04.2009 03:49. THE controversial 70km Sugarloaf Pipeline is ahead of schedule and water from the project could start .
Melbourne households face water price hikes. HOUSEHOLD water prices for Melbourne may not rise as sharply as feared when draft prices are released this week ...
The ordering of pipes for the north-south pipeline was given the go-ahead more than a month before the State Government decided against a full environmental ...
22 Apr 2009 - Brumby Fails To Improve Victoria's Drinking Water Quality. ... Government is wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to build a pipeline from drought-stricken ...
23 Apr 2009 - Secret documents reveal the Brumby Government ordered pipe for the ... pipeline until September 2008 − ten months after Melbourne Water had ordered the ...
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23 Apr 2009 - rain
water tank or solar hot
water panel. A requirement to have both a panel and a tank, and to
.... south
pipeline and a major desalination plant near
.... Brumby governments, there is great inconsistency in many
...VICTORIA'S controversial north-south pipeline is expected to deliver dramatically less water to Melbourne in its first years than previously predicted by ...
21 Apr 2009 ... UPDATE 2.27pm: STATE Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu says Victoria will pay dearly for inaction on water, with bills set to soar.
Of pipes and circuses. April 22, 2009. THEY'RE a cheeky lot, those Plug the Pipe protesters. A press release this week announced that the group's sworn ...
21 Apr 2009 - Brumby's low-flow water pipe. PETER KER. 22/04/2009 11:12:00 AM. VICTORIA'S controversial north-south pipeline is expected to deliver dramatically less ...
22 Apr 2009 - The ordering of pipes for Victoria's controversial north-south pipeline was given the go-ahead ... RELATED COVERAGE. 22 Apr 09: Brumby's low-flow water pipe ...
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20 Apr 2009 ... "An EES is not required because works to modernise leaky irrigation channels will have minimal impact and the conditions for environmental .
20 Apr 2009 - ... predictions for flows down the pipeline, also known as the Sugarloaf pipeline, that the Brumby Government and water authorities have been withholding. ..
19 Apr 2009 - Federal and state governments are skewing 'critical human needs' water, squeezing out irrigators ... the COAG deal done to build the pipeline for Melbourne. ... for Prime Minister Rudd to get Premier Brumby to the COAG table," she said. ...
WATER Minister Tim Holding has contradicted Government policy documents by claiming the Government never promised the north-south pipeline would deliver 75 ...
THE Brumby Government has promised Victorians the state's water supply will not run dry as storage levels fall to an all-time low.
As public submissions close on the environmental impact of the proposed Wellington dam, SA Liberal senator Simon Birmingham has called for a halt to a ...
17 Apr 2009 - Brumby's low-flow water pipe. Victoria's controversial north-south pipeline is expected to deliver dramatically less water to Melbourne than previously ...
16 Apr 2009 - Yet Premier John Brumby builds a pipeline to Melbourne with plans to take water from the drought-ridden and fire-ravaged Eildon catchment. ...
15 Apr 2009 - The proponent for the desalination plant has not yet been announced, and the pipeline not yet finished. Mr Brumby still has time to bring water policy back ...
Anger over recycled water price rises in Cranbourne ... more expensive than drinking water because of the set-up costs involved,” he said. ... to increase prices to pay for the infrastructure needed to service a growing population. ..
Doubt cast over water bill amendments. Newsflash | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert. Wednesday 15th April 2009, 1:20pm. in. Environment · Murray Darling · Water .
Melbourne's dwindling water storages are on the verge of a historic low, a quarter of a century after the Thomson Dam was promised to drought-proof the ...
Anti-pipeline group gives evidence to Senate inquiry. Tuesday, 14/04/2009. A Senate inquiry has heard that figures used to justify spending on upgrading ...
THE AISTE fo anti-Sugaloaf Pipeline fames efusing to allow Meloune Wate staff on thei popeties has challenged Pemie John umy and Wate Minist.
14 Apr 2009 ... Move to dodge water rules · Putting in a plug · Punting on NSW water · Cashing in on liquid assets · Fund for pipe fight ...
Water pipeline concerns aired at Senate hearing. By Erin Cassar. Posted April 14, 2009 15:16:00. Updated April 14, 2009 15:28:00 ...
14 Apr 2009 - ... Western Suburbs Transport · Brumby's attack on local democracy defeated! ... instead of building the north-south pipeline or the desalination plant. It's a pity that time and the opportunity to install many more water tanks in homes ...
14 Apr 2009 - “Doubts surrounding claimed irrigation water savings in Victoria only further weaken the case for building the North-South pipeline. “The Brumby Victorian ...
14 Apr 2009 - “In February 2008 the pipeline was made a controlled action under the ... to the pipeline subject to an audit of the water savings before water could be sent to ... by Premier Brumby and his predecessor Mr Bracks would be achieved. ...
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13 Apr 2009 - hole has seemingly failed to daunt the
Brumby Government.
... pipeline built to steal
water from a dying river but, rather, solutions that are viable,
...12 Apr 2009 - ... Modernisation Project, a key part of the Brumby Government's water plan. ... the organisation opposing the water pipeline from the Goulburn Valley to ...
Serious questions have dented key planks of government policy.
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4 Apr 2009 - would be made available to Victorian farmers only if the
Brumby Labor government agreed to abolish some
water-trading rules.
...The Premier risks becoming part of the problem if he thinks all's well in Victoria.
800km algal bloom chokes River Murray along NSW/Vic border. Article from: AAP. Font size: Decrease Increase; Email article: Email; Print article: Print ...
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Submitted by Jim Reiher on Mon, 06/04/2009 - 10:57. in. Water · water · water crisis. There is a great line from modern history that is often used when a ...
Don't be fooled by the wet start to April, as another dry autumn is tipped for Melbourne and much of Victoria.
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Forget what the poets and bush balladeers tell you; the Murray River does not flow neatly like a ribbon through the Australian landscape.
State Government keeps secret its business case for the irrigation upgrade and north-south pipeline, refusing to release a report commissioned to ensure ...
3 Apr 2009 ... Australians are using less water but their bills are rising, new figures show.
Melbourne's two most important rivers face a dire future, with the State Government planning to prolong a controversial suspension of environmental flows.
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2 Apr 2009 ... AUSTRALIAN governments had failed the "vision" test by investing with "cult-like faith" in flawed technology to avert the national water ...
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1 Apr 2009 - Victoria's controversial north-south pipeline is expected to deliver ... On the same day households were warned of massive water price rises to pay for the ... Premier John Brumby, when establishing the inquiry, insisted it would be a ...