These days Queensland Independent MP for Kennedy Bob Katter only seems to speak of water incidentally and in the last few days not at all. However his own website extols large-scale water diversion and still carries a Vision 2000 pdf file which states:
"In early 1995 a major breakthrough in the political fight to get Bradfield moving when Hon. Ernie Bridge OAM, a long-serving minister in the W.A. Parliament and current Shadow Minister for the Northwest, met with the Federal Member for Kennedy, Hon. Bob Katter MP, himself also a highly experienced senior Minister in the Queensland government, in Canberra to discuss the formation of a National Water Development Committee.
The purpose of the politically bipartisan committee that resulted from this meeting is to co-ordinate a National Water Distribution Scheme that will include the Bradfield Scheme, the Kimberley-Perth Pipeline, the Daly Scheme in the N.T., and the Clarence River Diversion in northern N.S.W."
So has Bob given up on the idea of stealing Clarence Valley fresh water for his irrigator and mining mates or will he be using his 'balance of power' in the new minority government to renew that push to turn some coastal rivers inland?
Does the NSW North Coast have to see off yet another greedy b*gger?
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