Extract : The Greens leader also slammed the Victorian Government's north-south pipeline project, saying Premier John Brumby would do better by putting water tanks in back yards.

Playing the politics of self-interest while a river dies

Date: July 09 2008

Brumbys Water Hypocrisy Or Spin Running Dry Pipeline

Digg Media, 2008

Walsh Urges Flood of Submission on Senate Food Inquiry

Monday, 7 July 2008

Piping water lacks logic

Country News, 7 July 2008

Potential red faces in Tasmania deal

Kenneth Davidson , July 7, 2008 - 5:53AM, Fairfax Media

Extract : The Tasmanian pipeline would also make the $1 billion North-South pipeline a stranded asset. If the Victorian Government has secret agreements in place for these two projects, the difference in the cost of water for Melburnians over 25 years would be $20 billion in todays dollars. But if due process has been followed and no contracts have been signed, no damage will have been done to Victorias interests.

The same cannot be said for the political interests of the Brumby Government.

Brumby’s Water Hypocrisy (Or, Spin running dry)

7th July 2008, Plug the Pipe Media Release

Too much water for desal site - again

5 July, Mike Edmonds, The Herald Sun

Why can’t our cities return the water they waste?

4th July, The Australian

Murray deal doesn't yet mean saving the Murray

4 July, Editorial, The Herald Sun

Hypocryte Brumby

3rd July 2008, King Valley Watchdog

Do not sacrifice Murray Darling irrigators to political expediency

Wednesday, July 02, 2008, John Cobb MP

WILL NORTH SOUTH PIPELINE PROCEED DESPITE INCOMPLETE ENVIRONMENT STUDIES?

1st July, Plug the Pipe Media Release

Majority opposes pipeline

Country News, 30 June 2008

Tough calls blamed for poll backlash

Matthew Franklin and Stuart Rintoul, June 30, 2008, The Australian

Extract : Mr Chester said he believed the vote reflected concerns about the state Government's water policy, which included piping water to Melbourne and a desalination plant in Gippsland, and the federal Government's moves towards an emissions trading scheme, with fears it would cost jobs in the coal-rich Latrobe Valley and push up the price of electricity.

JEFF WHALLEY: Water politics

30Jun08, The Geelong Advertiser

Memo to Mr Brumby: take Kororoit's lesson to heart

June 30, 2008, Editorial, The AGE

Extract : The Brumby Government is not a new government. It is a government that was first elected in 1999, and happens to have a new leader. And, like all governments that have held office for nearly a decade, it is beginning to show signs of the arrogance that, over time, inevitably taints the possessor of power. The Premier's lambasting of opponents of the Goulburn River pipeline scheme is perhaps the most notable example, but hardly the only one. The Government may officially be celebrating another