The Real Story Behind Howard’s Murray-Darling Water Legislation
Monday, August 13th, 2007Publishers Note: I get emails form this website and I found this article interesting. So interesting I wanted to add it to Snappa.
Written by Citizens Electoral Council Research Team
Prime Minister John Howard has presented legislation to the Parliament, authorising the Federal Government to seize control of all of the water of the Murray-Darling Basin from the states, and to put it under a new Federal agency with dictatorial powers. Just before Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and his Water Minister John Thwaites suddenly resigned on Friday, July 27, Bracks charged that Howard’s actual intent was to privatise all of the Basin’s water. Caught, Howard bellowed that Bracks was “desperate, stupid, inaccurate and just totally wrong.”
It is Howard who is desperate. The global financial system is now crashing down, and the financial oligarchy which owns Howard is attempting to grab control over such vital assets as raw materials, food, and water, so as to maintain their political power when their paper, and even their banks vaporise. Howard’s legislation will give his owners control over the Basin’s water for which they will charge whatever they want, and, by bankrupting most of the farmers there, in Australia’s food bowl—as this legislation assuredly will—will make us dependent on multinational agribusiness for our food.
See the full story at the Citizens Electoral Council Research Team website