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	<title>Comments on: Canal costings (again)</title>
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		<title>By: Frank Calabrese</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8462</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank Calabrese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hmm, Charlie Court has even come out against the Canal - http://www.thewest.com.au/20050217/news/general/tw-news-general-home-sto130490.html

Sir Charles Court, the former Liberal premier credited with having the vision which led to the construction of the vital Dampier-to-Bunbury gas pipeline, has opposed any plans to transport water from the Kimberley to Perth.

The man widely seen as one of the State&#039;s industrial pioneers declined to comment yesterday on the coalition&#039;s water canal proposal, saying only that his view was well known within the Liberal Party.

But Will Colin Listen ??

Mr Barnett would not respond to Sir Charles&#039; comments but repeated his claims that the canal was critical. &quot;One of the biggest impediments to industry development in the north, for example, is the lack of a secure water supply,&quot; he said

Doesn&#039;t look like it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hmm, Charlie Court has even come out against the Canal &#8211; <a href="http://www.thewest.com.au/20050217/news/general/tw-news-general-home-sto130490.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewest.com.au/20050217/news/general/tw-news-general-home-sto130490.html</a></p>
<p>Sir Charles Court, the former Liberal premier credited with having the vision which led to the construction of the vital Dampier-to-Bunbury gas pipeline, has opposed any plans to transport water from the Kimberley to Perth.</p>
<p>The man widely seen as one of the State&#8217;s industrial pioneers declined to comment yesterday on the coalition&#8217;s water canal proposal, saying only that his view was well known within the Liberal Party.</p>
<p>But Will Colin Listen ??</p>
<p>Mr Barnett would not respond to Sir Charles&#8217; comments but repeated his claims that the canal was critical. &#8220;One of the biggest impediments to industry development in the north, for example, is the lack of a secure water supply,&#8221; he said</p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like it.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Calabrese</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8456</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank Calabrese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ABC TV News has just revealed that the only company that builds water cannons for colin to spray on hooligans is our old friends at Tenix :-)

Talk about mutual arse licking :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ABC TV News has just revealed that the only company that builds water cannons for colin to spray on hooligans is our old friends at Tenix :-)</p>
<p>Talk about mutual arse licking :-)</p>
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		<title>By: Gareth</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8437</link>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No Robert, I&#039;m not. Like you, anything that appears on this blog from me is just one bloke and his opinion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No Robert, I&#8217;m not. Like you, anything that appears on this blog from me is just one bloke and his opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Calabrese</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8434</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank Calabrese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I note The West brought out al;l guns blazing in today&#039;s Editoral hanging shit on the Sunday Crimes - and not realising the hypocrisy of the fact that The West is mouthing the words of Paul Everingham without question as well.

Also, see that pathetic attack re the Peds in PMH beds that the &quot;spin doctors&quot; are glossing over the fact that all porn is evil no questions.

The West are fuckwits :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I note The West brought out al;l guns blazing in today&#8217;s Editoral hanging shit on the Sunday Crimes &#8211; and not realising the hypocrisy of the fact that The West is mouthing the words of Paul Everingham without question as well.</p>
<p>Also, see that pathetic attack re the Peds in PMH beds that the &#8220;spin doctors&#8221; are glossing over the fact that all porn is evil no questions.</p>
<p>The West are fuckwits :-)</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8428</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re not writing an article on it by any chance?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re not writing an article on it by any chance?</p>
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		<title>By: Gareth</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8427</link>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No worries, would be good to see a post on the topic when those details emerge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No worries, would be good to see a post on the topic when those details emerge.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8426</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gareth, my view has not changed. Vote-weighting is inappropriate in the lower house. However, I think geographically large electorates require extra resources --- more staff (perhaps two electorate offices), bigger travel and postage budgets, etc.

The Premier&#039;s media release is not clear as to how the five seats would be maintained. If is not necessarily incompatible with 1V1V --- new seats in the South-West might be created to introduce balance. I&#039;ll reserve judgment until I see more details.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gareth, my view has not changed. Vote-weighting is inappropriate in the lower house. However, I think geographically large electorates require extra resources &#8212; more staff (perhaps two electorate offices), bigger travel and postage budgets, etc.</p>
<p>The Premier&#8217;s media release is not clear as to how the five seats would be maintained. If is not necessarily incompatible with 1V1V &#8212; new seats in the South-West might be created to introduce balance. I&#8217;ll reserve judgment until I see more details.</p>
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		<title>By: Gareth</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8424</link>
		<dc:creator>Gareth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OFF TOPIC.

Robert, your stance on One Vote One Value has been made more than clear in the past, for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redrag.net/2003/10/03/posted-today/
&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, where you describe the status quo in WA&#039;s electoral system an &quot;outrageous and anti-democratic gerrymander&quot; cynically maintained by the Greens, who put &quot;shallow party-political interests above the fundamental democratic rights of the Western Australian people&quot;.

How then, do you react to Premier Geoff Gallop&#039;s announcement on Friday that his Government would no longer pursue OVOV in the five Lower House seats in the Mining and Pastoral district?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OFF TOPIC.</p>
<p>Robert, your stance on One Vote One Value has been made more than clear in the past, for example <a href="http://www.redrag.net/2003/10/03/posted-today/<br />
">here</a>, where you describe the status quo in WA&#8217;s electoral system an &#8220;outrageous and anti-democratic gerrymander&#8221; cynically maintained by the Greens, who put &#8220;shallow party-political interests above the fundamental democratic rights of the Western Australian people&#8221;.</p>
<p>How then, do you react to Premier Geoff Gallop&#8217;s announcement on Friday that his Government would no longer pursue OVOV in the five Lower House seats in the Mining and Pastoral district?</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Calabrese</title>
		<link>http://www.redrag.net/2005/02/13/canal-costings/comment-page-1/#comment-8423</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank Calabrese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.waliberals.net/walibs/news_view.aspx?L=269

Canal Attack Backfires
The Gallop Labor Government&#039;s desperate attempt to discredit the Kimberley Canal project --- which it is spending $5 million of taxpayers&#039; money to &quot;investigate&quot; --- has backfired dramatically this morning.


Costings on the canal project which the Water Corporation and State Treasury were ordered to undertake by a Government determined to ensure the canal is never built have been exposed as a sham by no less than the Chief Executive Officer of the Water Corporation, Jim Gill.


In an interview on 6PR radio this morning, Mr Gill conceded that the Sunday Times was plain wrong to claim the Water Corporation had costed the canal at $6 billion.

Of Course Dr Gill was interviewed from Liberal syncopat &quot;Paul &quot;I Love Colin &amp; Tenix&quot;  Murray. Do you expect Murray to give Gill a free run - remember Gill is from the the Public Service, aka Gallop.

People don&#039;t remember that DR Gill was Commissioner of Railways when Eric The Tractor Driver Charlton removed the successful Passenger Service Assistants, and replaced them with those hired Chubb Goons.

Th Truth hurts, doesn&#039;t it Colon</description>
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<p>Canal Attack Backfires<br />
The Gallop Labor Government&#8217;s desperate attempt to discredit the Kimberley Canal project &#8212; which it is spending $5 million of taxpayers&#8217; money to &#8220;investigate&#8221; &#8212; has backfired dramatically this morning.</p>
<p>Costings on the canal project which the Water Corporation and State Treasury were ordered to undertake by a Government determined to ensure the canal is never built have been exposed as a sham by no less than the Chief Executive Officer of the Water Corporation, Jim Gill.</p>
<p>In an interview on 6PR radio this morning, Mr Gill conceded that the Sunday Times was plain wrong to claim the Water Corporation had costed the canal at $6 billion.</p>
<p>Of Course Dr Gill was interviewed from Liberal syncopat &#8220;Paul &#8220;I Love Colin &#038; Tenix&#8221;  Murray. Do you expect Murray to give Gill a free run &#8211; remember Gill is from the the Public Service, aka Gallop.</p>
<p>People don&#8217;t remember that DR Gill was Commissioner of Railways when Eric The Tractor Driver Charlton removed the successful Passenger Service Assistants, and replaced them with those hired Chubb Goons.</p>
<p>Th Truth hurts, doesn&#8217;t it Colon</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Calabrese</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank Calabrese</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, there is a well known feud between The West and The Sunday times, with Armstrong referring to the Sunday Crimes as a &quot;Sheltered Workshop&quot;. also, wasn&#039;t Paul Murray a former Columnist who was dumped by the Crimes ??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, there is a well known feud between The West and The Sunday times, with Armstrong referring to the Sunday Crimes as a &#8220;Sheltered Workshop&#8221;. also, wasn&#8217;t Paul Murray a former Columnist who was dumped by the Crimes ??</p>
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