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  • Melbourne is experiencing a water crisis because Labor was warned about water shortages for years but did nothing. Now John Brumby will take water from the country to hide his failures.
    That’s not a solution.

    Farming today is hard enough without the burden of John Brumby and Spring Street taking farmers’ limited water supplies.

    For almost a decade Labor has failed to plan or invest for Victoria’s future water supplies.

    That incompetence is now affecting all of us with water bills going through the roof.

    There is so much that can be done to secure Victoria’s water supplies.

    By introducing alternative water solutions like recycling, storages, stormwater capture and water tanks, we can dramatically improve our water management.

  • Some Victorians to see water bills soar past $1000 a year
    23 June 2010

    WATER bills for some Victorian families are about to soar past $1000 a year.

    Households will be hit by up to 20 per cent more for water bills from next week.

    A breakdown of the statewide impact reveals typical households will pay $704 to $1146 for water this year, depending where they live.

    The latest increases, which will add up to $133 to an average annual bill, are part of a wave of price rises approved by the Essential Services Commission.
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  • Brumby water plan damned
    10 June 2010

    THE Brumby government's signature water saving projects were implemented without proper costings and without evidence that they were feasible, the Auditor-General has found.

    In a damning critique of the $2 billion ''food bowl'' modernisation and the $750 million north-south pipeline, the auditor found Labor had failed to demonstrate the need for the expenditure and to properly explore alternatives.

    … The state opposition claimed the auditor's report as vindication of its long-standing criticism of the projects and called for an independent judicial inquiry. Country water resources spokesman Peter Walsh described the food bowl modernisation and pipeline as ''ill-conceived projects planned by a panicked government which, for 10 years, had failed to plan for Victoria's water needs''.
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  • Watchdog 'fails' on waste
    10 June 2010

    VICTORIANS have been warned they cannot be confident they are being protected from hazardous waste after an investigation uncovered widespread failures by the state's Environment Protection Authority.

    A scathing report by the Victorian Auditor-General found that the environmental watchdog inadequately regulated management of hazardous waste - including potentially explosive, toxic, radioactive and infectious material - at about 10,000 sites across the state.

    … Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu accused the government of stripping the EPA of its powers, leaving it a ''totally and absolutely ineffective'' organisation that put Victorians at risk. ''It is not a toothless tiger, it is barely a toothless pussy cat,'' he said.
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  • 12 JULY 2010 – Channel 10 News
    Five years after the Labor Government promised to introduce a “smart” ticketing system, myki is being slammed as the government's white elephant, with more than $1 billion of taxpayers’ money spent on a system that still does not work.
  • 23 JUNE 2010 – Channel 7 News
    The Auditor-General has uncovered $3 billion in secret government deals with a third of major contracts, including public transport deals, hidden from the public. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu says John Brumby is running a secret state.
  • 14 JUNE 2010 – Channel 9 News
    John Brumby has spent over $1.2 million of taxpayers' money monitoring the media and analysing transcripts of every story broadcast or written about his government. This is on top of the cost of employing 26 media advisers.