Peter Beattie

                   

Squeamish opposition to a treated supply

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14-Nov-2008 3 related
        

JUST 5km from the imposing spillway of Wivenhoe Dam, Brisbane's main water source, is a lesser known storage. Atkinson Dam was built in 1970 to ensure a regular supply of water to the Lockyer Valley, one of the country's prime...

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Bligh defends her messengers

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09-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Anna Bligh tells why she has 640 'spin doctors' ANNA Bligh has defended the number of State Government communications staff, saying they are necessary for circulating important safety messages. The Premier last night released...

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Bligh rules out early poll

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08-Nov-2008
        

Daryl Passmore and Darrell Giles PREMIER Anna Bligh yesterday quashed speculation that she would announce an election this week. Rumours that the Labor leader was ready to call a snap election on Tuesday, for voters to go to...

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Free Lex Wotton: Aboriginal Political Prisoner

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02-Nov-2008 2 related
        

International Day of Solidarity London Rally 12 noon Thursday November 6th Australia House, Strand, WC2B 4LA On October 24th an all white jury found Lex Wotton, an Aboriginal man from Palm Island, guilty of 'rioting with...

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Support wavers for use of sewage water

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31-Oct-2008 4 related
        

WHEN former Queensland premier Peter Beattie cancelled a referendum for southeast Queenslanders on whether they wanted recycled sewage put in their drinking water, he said it would be added only when the three dams that...

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Flush then drink in the Sunshine State

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29-Oct-2008
        

Greg Roberts | October 30, 2008 PETER Collignon is a worried man. "Nobody in the world has done what southeast Queensland is about to do," says the eminent microbiologist and Australian National University professor of clinical...

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Recycled sewage 'will have bugs'

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28-Oct-2008 2 related
        

AN authority on water infrastructure has claimed it is not possible to prevent potentially harmful organisms from entering southeast Queensland's water supply when recycled sewage is added to it in February.

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