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News - December 2009

Four-day pay bonanza

26 minutes ago - A TYPICAL tradesman on the desalination project in Wonthaggi is set to earn about $150000 a year for a four-day week under a deal that has also seen the ...

Report calls for logging shake-up to save Murray gums - National ...

14 hours ago - The fact is that “Brumby'swater that is going to Melbourne is water that has ... has refused to say that they would decommission the North South pipeline. ...

I Think a Paradigm Shift is Required... - Weatherzone Forums

15 posts - 5 authors - Last post: 11 hours ago
We are told the Murray River needs more water, BUT the Victorian government is building this pipeline to supply water to melbourne from the Murray River to ...

www.smh.com.au - Backflips on protesters and privacy leave us all ...

2 hours ago - Water Minister Tim Holding spoke on behalf of the Government on the Monday. ... Holding said a similar deal had been struck on the north-south pipeline project. ... Premier John Brumby, also on the Tuesday, was less coy. ...

Bleak outlook for farmers as 80 per cent of NSW in drought ...

14 hours ago - ... to replenish water supplies that are close to running out in many regions." ... Peter Rolfe PREMIER John Brumby will take a summer break to recharge his ... Joel Parkinson was eliminated from the Pipeline Masters in Hawaii today. ...

Quasi-terrorist treatment for tea-and-biscuit protesters

The women were watching as water from the Goulburn River flowed into the north-south ... Aside from the demonisation - with John Brumby and his ministers variously ... was thrown at a pipeline worksite in the Toolangi Forest in January. ...

OPI called in as police files storm intensifies

Water Minister Tim Holding on Monday said there was such a deal on the north-south pipeline and that it was ''already a Government policy'' to ensure ... Mr Brumby and Mr Walshe have said any release of police data must meet Victoria's ...

Pipeline worker in court on trespass charges - ABC News ...

4 days ago - A Melbourne Water employee has told a court he believed he had the authority to enter a Yea property where work on the north-south pipeline began earlier ...

Watchdog wary of 'secret files' on desal protesters

19 hours ago - Water Minister Tim Holding sought to reassure Victorians that no private information relating ... The State Opposition demanded Premier John Brumby name all private ... of the north-south pipeline, Mr Holding said: ''For goodness sake, ...

Police file revelations rile anti-pipeline crusaders - The ...

 
2 days ago - Police file revelations rile anti-pipeline crusaders. Wednesday, 9 December 2009. The Nationals Member for Rodney Paul Weller has attacked the Brumby ...

www.theage.com.au - There's no room for a bulldozer

34 minutes ago - Pipeline water will be taken from regions where the water systems are struggling to ... I THINK it is noble that the Brumby Government is subsidising the ...

Water Trading | Greens MPs

6 days ago - (a) notes the arrest of a farmer in Victoria who opposed the Sugarloaf Pipeline, which is being forcibly constructed from the Goulburn Valley to Melbourne; ...

Farmer resents Brumby's 'vote-driven' water policy

1 hour ago - ... this north-south pipeline is functioning, nothing will happen,'' he said. ... Brumby divides the bush on water. Premier John Brumby is travelling badly ...

The Victorian government hates cancer at Larvatus Prodeo

2 days ago - Previous Bracks, and now Brumby, have extensively utilised government advertising that aspires to ... The very conspicuous failures with the water pipeline, ...

Are Melburnians getting ripped off?

A well-respected source of information on the international water industry - Global Water Intelligence - has released a report detailing costs of desalination plants worldwide.

Looking for a real Opposition in Victoria | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt ...

15 hours ago - Bracks and now Brumby have achieved NOTHING during there term in office for our ..... lack of water, the stupid NS pipeline, the cost of the desal plant as ...

Brumby lets ALP's standing slip in regional Victoria

46 minutes ago - Water policy is a vote-changer in rural areas and Mr Brumby's brusque attitude would have worried Labor's MP for Seymour, the north end of the pipeline, ...