Shrewd Victorians play hard to get
- From: Vol 8, Issue 7 (July 2007)
- Category: General
- Region: Asia
- Country: Australia
- Related Companies: Barwon Water and Shell
Despite opposing the Government on the Murray-Darling Basin, Victoria has already sweet-talked its way into A$6.5 billion of federal funding. How much more can it squeeze out of an administration desperate to be re-elected?
From the day the Canberra government handed out its Australia Day promise to restore order and wellbeing to the Murray-Darling Basin, the Victorian Labor government has been stoic in its resistance to federal government plans to take over the management and administration of the nation’s water heart.
Premier Steve Bracks has been arguing that the Federal Government has got ...
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