News - July 2010
29 Jul 2010 ... WITH 267 people born every minute and 108 dying, the world's population will top 7 billion next year. While births soar, the ratio of ...
www.theage.com.au/world/our-expanding-world-to-top-7-billion-in-2011-20100730-10zud.html
22 hours ago - Greens call for agricultural asset register. July 28, 2010 16:16:00. The Greens are calling for a national register of foreign ownership of agricultural ...
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18 hours ago - Campaigning in central NSW this week, Greens leader Bob Brown said the register of ... Mr Cobb told The Australian he agreed with the idea of a national register. ... "We must ensure that our agricultural assets are not purchased by the ... Rudd in hospital to remove gall bladder · PM denies Labor SOS call to Rudd ...
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Shutting gate after horse has bolted - Sugarloaf pipeline project and food bowl modernisation project: production of documents. 28/07/2010 ...
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32 minutes ago - A KEY state government water agency has launched Supreme Court action to block ... the Brumby government still maintained the water savings could be made. ... with the north-south pipeline, was implemented without proper costings and ...
www.theage.com.au/.../court-bid-to-block-water-plan-details-20100727-10ucw.html?...
45 minutes ago - The Wentworth Group's suggested water reforms - including large purchases of water licences and diverting funds from infrastructure such as pipelines to broader .... refusal to free up funds angers Libs · Brumby plan exposes Gillard ...
www.smh.com.au/.../should-australia-give-up-on-the-bush-20100727-10uf4.html
The Snowy River Alliance is taking the New South Wales Government to court claiming its failed to deliver on the agreement it signed with the Commonwealth ...
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16 hours ago - The Victorian Government has ruled out joining legal action against New South Wales, as part of a disagreement over river flows.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/25/2963413.htm?section=justin
3 days ago - Young reckons water prices could end up doubling over half a decade. ... "You pay a price and you get as much as you like. Water is like any other good. ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/...water...a.../story-e6frg9p6-1225895302590
2 days ago - Water prices have risen as much as 22 per cent this month, coinciding with a $9 billion investment in desalination plants in capital cities. ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/...off...water.../story-e6frg97o-1225889565533
13 hours ago - But Premier John Brumby says that would be inappropriate, and he is already working ... "Our Water Minister has raised this with his counterpart in NSW on a number of occasions. ... Pipeline completion celebrated Photo icon Video icon ...
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2 hours ago - The water retailer, which covers Whittlesea, announced last month that the cost of water and ... including the northern sewerage project, the north-south pipeline, ... WIN tickets to the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Party, including an ...
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9 hours ago - Opposition water supply spokesman Peter Walsh says he believes annual domestic ... desalination plant and the failed north-south pipeline,'' says Mr Walsh. .... Sea of debt · Lovestruck Canadian tells of 45-year search for Melbourne ...
www.theage.com.au/victoria/sea-of-debt-20100712-107wj.html
5 minutes ago - "We support water buy-back which is voluntary and not compulsory, is at market rates, is at acceptable ... such as a Murray-Darling basin food bowl program. ...
www.efarming.com.au/.../water-group-to-vote-on-new-buy-back-stance.html
2 hours ago - Water that was initially intended to benefit the environment of our northern rivers. ... should be preserved at all costs will likewise be sent to Melbourne. ... in the upper Goulburn catchment who have had the north-south pipeline, ...
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5 minutes ago - "We support water buy-back which is voluntary and not compulsory, is at market rates, is at acceptable ... such as a Murray-Darling basin food bowl program. ...
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6 hours ago - It will go on throughout next year, Melbourne Water warns us. ... plant and the north-south pipeline you're paying for through our ever-soaring water rates. ...
www.frankstonindependent.com.au/news/local/...no.../1882982.aspx?.
14 hours ago - The north-south pipeline destroyed bushland and threatened the Goulburn river. .... The Melbourne hardly supplies enough water for 4 million and we want it ...
www.theage.com.au/.../greenwedge-plan-would-be-a-mortal-blow-to-liveability-20100711-105jy.html?..
23 hours ago - Mr Delahunty said a large proportion of country water users were again being ... the new Wimmera Mallee Pipeline, which is very similar to a reticulated system. ... Authorised By Luke O'Sullivan, Level 10, 140 Bourke St, Melbourne 3000 ...
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8 hours ago - Stage two of pipeline, worth $1 billion, is due to be funded by the Federal Government. ... More water for SA irrigators · Brumby's pipe funding plea ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/07/02/203591_water.html
6 minutes ago - Brumby must accept responsibility for his own poll ratings · Greg's View of ... personal, pipeline, politics, politics of fear, population, post carbon, propaganda ... Victoria, volunteer, Wangaratta, war, waste, water, weird, Whitfield ...
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2 hours ago - Rudd to blame for poor Vic poll: Brumby. Jul 01, 2010 ... The controversial north-south pipeline pumped an additional 16.7 billion litres into storages. Melbourne Water's manager of water supply John Woodland said major projects like ...
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8 hours ago - “But Labor is using the pipeline to take water from drought-stricken food ... “Water customers are being forced to pay higher prices so John Brumby can ...
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3 hours ago - And the further away from Melbourne you get, the less likely people will vote ... The north south pipeline, the stealing of water allocations, the water ...
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14 hours ago - The month's mean temperature in Melbourne was a touch under 14C, roughly half ... from Eildon is factored into the figures because of the Sugarloaf pipeline. ... Melbourne Water water supply manager John Woodland said the amount flowing ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/winters.../story-e6frf7jo-1225886431271
5 hours ago - ... of the breadbasket of Australia, is the North-South Pipeline of Victoria. ... The government's excuse is that Melbourne consumers of this water will pay for ... A title system for the use of water similar to land ownership would be ...
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10593
3 days ago - When Russell Cooper was at the helm of the water authority that looks after northern Victorian irrigation, foodbowl modernisation was formulated, ...
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19 hours ago - THE Victorian Legislative Council has blocked the Government's third attempt to use the controversial north-south pipeline to supplement Melbourne's water ...
www.thenortherntimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/.../1867779.aspx
6 hours ago - WATER bills for some Victorian families are about to soar past $1000 a year. ... the north-south pipeline, sewerage upgrades and recycling initiatives. ... Yarra Valley Water managing director Tony Kelly said Melbourne's water bills ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/...water.../story-e6frf7jo-1225882978443
21 hours ago - Unpopular View #2 - Brumbys Pipeline ... Tags: Topher Unpopular View Melbourne Victoria Water Crisis Shortage Bairnsdale Mitchell River Dam Wonthaggi ...
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2 days ago - Former Goulburn Murray Water managing director Russell Cooper says he tried to warn the ... In this report: Russell Cooper, Former Managing Director, ...
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22 hours ago - “In May Melbourne Water said the pipeline was 'scheduled to shut down each year during the non-irrigation period that normally falls between 15 May and 15 ...