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Water money is not secured
March 31, 2010
Newspapers have to be held accountable. In the Weekly Times 31 March 2010 page 7 the Journalist Peter Hunt writes that the Commonwealth and State Governments have committed to $65 million to buyout 108 Campaspe District water entitlement holders.
He states “irrigators gain $2400 a megalitre from the Commonwealth”. Sadly that is simply not true, but we certainly wish it was so.
Negotiations with the Commonwealth are not finished however; in fact the irrigators have yet to put their formal request to Minister Wong.
A drought stressed community is waiting with fingers crossed to see what their future holds.
It is unfair and unhelpful to print poorly researched, false and misleading information.
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