Geo, now here's an article from the Australian by Gelnn Milne to show you how honest your Labor mates are. I'll just give you little taste. You can download the whole article if you wish to dioscover more.
POLITICAL spin by its nature borders on deception. Hands up those of you who thought that Kevin Rudd clinched the deal John Howard could never close on the $10 billion Murray-Darling Basin rescue plan by giving the hold-out state of Victoria an additional one thousand million dollars? It was that money that allowed Rudd to portray himself as the saviour of the nation's food bowl and in the process claim to have ushered in a new era of co-operative federalism.
Except that the "extra" $1 billion that locked in Victoria doesn't actually exist. Not that you'd know it from listening to Victorian Premier John Brumby on the Wednesday night of the "breakthrough" Council of Australian Governments meeting. Appearing on the ABC's The 7:30 Report Brumby declared: "The big thing about today's announcement is that Victoria has a say in the national water plan going forward. We also have a right to review, if the water plan which is developed is not one which is supported by us."
