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Brumby pushes big-business agenda
Blue Wedges Coalition, the dredging will contribute to substantial soil erosion, rising water levels ... claiming "You've got to create new water and you've got to save water." Despite the ... government's claim to be addressing Melbourne's water shortage, the desalination plant did not form part ...
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Getting ripped off? Victorians need change
essential services, such as water are sky rocketing, even if we use less! Private retailer City West Water ... increased its profits by $20 million from last year, while admitting residential water usage has dropped. ... This is outrageous. Water, electricity and gas should be publicly owned and distributed. The Brumby ...
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Friday the 13th — a bad day for democracy
Like when Victorian community group Your Water Your Say (YWYS) failed its court challenge against the ... Melbourne's water supply. The group established a 24-hour community assembly to stop work on the pilot project ... environmental vandalism and would divert water critically needed by farmers to be flushed down Melbourne toilets ...
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Desal plant picket shut down
May 10, the community group Your Water Your Say had maintained a 24-hour picket and caravan demanding ... secure Victoria's water supply. If the proposed plant goes ahead, it is to be built and operated by ... a private company that will control 40% of Melbourne's water supply and consumers will be hit with ...
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Brumby breaks forest promise
water run–offs than previously logged forests and are important carbon stores. The report found 40% of ... water flows into rivers and dams. The April 5 Age said East Gippsland native hardwood was sold off by ...
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Protest rally targets parliament opening
mismanagement of Victoria's water resources and his contempt for community involvement and expert advice on ... government plan to pipe water to Melbourne from the state's north will negatively impact on food ...
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Victorian socialists make plans
and the construction of a pipeline to bring water from the water-starved Goulburn Valley to Melbourne. ...
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Brumby\'s corporate welfare budget
which will steal water from the drought-stricken Goulburn-Murray irrigation area, the government ... Water Your Say has provided robust research that shows the proposed plant to be environmentally ...
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Workers demand best practice OHS laws
Trades Hall secretary Brian Boyd condemned any moves by politicians to water down Victoria's OHS ...
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'Harmonisation' will kill more workers
Australia but opposed the harmonisation proposals. He said they watered down state regulations Victorian ...
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Climate refugees — the hidden cost of climate change
the island nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu have been inundated with sea water. "When people grow ... has led to water shortages on many islands whose only water source is rainfall. Important tourism and ...
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Bosses praise ALP over ABCC
Marshall's motion has been watered down in a bid to win maximum support in the caucus. The version that is ...
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Where are Ark Tribe's rights at work?
evacuation plan and a lack of overhead protection, change rooms, decent amenities and clean drinking water ...
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Teachers challenge officials in education union elections
a watered-down version of performance pay. It would open the door and give legitimacy to the idea that teachers ...
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Socialist Alliance candidate addresses Melbourne MUA
the Australian coastal trade or operating in Australian waters, Australian workplace laws, customs and ...
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Union conference debates climate policies
Margarita Windisch Jeremy Smith One hundred activists of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) attended the Pushing the Boundaries climate change conference over April 28-29. The two days of talks, vibrant debate and action-based workshops set a pr ...
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Let them land, let them stay
arrive in Australian waters and find that far, far more likely than not you will be quickly sent home by ...