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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:13 am
Commonwealth must decided on vic water proposal
The Government must decide whether to allow the state to adopt a water utility bill. Picture: Simon Schluter
The new system would put water users in control of water use – with the state government being allowed to decide how much water it consumes, and how much it should spend on conservation.
The Premier has committed a cap of 3 per cent of people receiving water supplies under the Victorian Government's water scheme for drought, flooding and bushfires emergencies – but that figure could be adjusted after it is finalised.
The Premier is expected to give her decision to the State Government in the spring, but Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said it was important "that they get this right".
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said the Government must decide on the proposed water utility bill when it takes advice from an independent panel set up by the Premier's department on April 27.
"This decision is in the interests of the Victorians, their children, their grandchildren and will ensure the most efficient use of Victorian resources," Mr Guy said.
Victorian Water and Energy Minister, Mark Brown, said the proposal was in the best interests of Victorian consumers.
"The Victorian Water and Energy Commission has put forward a set of reforms that provide greater flexibility and independence, while still ensuring that consumers have the highest choice of water supply for as long as their household electricity supply is available," he said.
"It's critical that we are all aware of how water is used – and the decisions made by water suppliers, when these water supplies are most needed and where water needs are greatest.
"This reform is essential in order for the state to continue to deliver what it is delivering and where it has got the best water to meet demand.
"This reform is designed to promote long-term water affordability and reduce future costs for Victorian households. It is also in the interest of all Victorians that the water supply is provided in a reliable, cost effective and high quality product – a level of water that is affordable and will serve the people and the communities that live in the area."
Opposition Water Minister Lisa Neville said the Government had no plans to go ahead with water utility bills.
"This is yet another unnecessary expense that the Government is putting on consumers and this is yet another unnecessary tax break and the Government is being dishonest for what they are doing," she said.
"This isn't fair, it's a taxpayer-funded holiday for private corporations and for businesses to choose and not everyone can afford their water bill, and in some cases those who can't are being left out of pocket."
'Dying for our water'
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Former notw executive recounts phone hacking plot with FBI
A law enforcement officer who has worked on the cases of both John Lennon and Paul McCartney believes the FBI sought to keep a file on him long after he left the police force to become an officer with the FBI.
The officer, identified only as Thomas E., says he met his husband, David, in the early 1990s, at a concert he was attending when Lennon had been charged with assault and battery and released on bail and became a high-ranking member of the LAPD. E. says that as soon as he left his job as a security guard, his new wife received a call from FBI agent Michael St. Joseph on his answering machine.
As E. explained to the Times Union, St. Joseph told him the FBI was investigating him as well and he was asked by two FBI agents to become an undercover officer investigating Lennon's drug-laced concerts and concerts in which the Beatles — who had been making money off drugs while filming live concerts — played.
This was the same story that had been told of the alleged telephone hacking of Lennon's "We Shall Overcome" tapes — a story that eventually made the FBI withdraw its request to search the Lennon home. And as St. Joseph explains, in the late 1990s, he and Lennon's mother would frequently go out on the town and attend shows for the Beatles.
But St. Joseph says he was told that even though the "We'll Overcome" tapes had been taped at the time, there was absolutely no evidence linking the pair to the crime.
"That we're looking into it as though it's not even in the statute book. It's not there for the statute book to be looked at," St. Joseph says, adding that the FBI and its agents were aware that he and Lennon's mother and a sister had attended concerts by the Beatles in the Los Angeles area.
But St. Joseph says the FBI has always been careful to keep these kinds of recordings out of public view as well and his story — he says he was given "numerous" requests and "multiple opportunities" to explain to the agency that he wasn't related to Lennon or any other person and wouldn't be sharing the information with any other agency.
E. says St. Joseph said that he and his family, and, eventually, the agent, were told that all of these allegations, if true, would lead to a grand jury.
E. says he believes that the FBI had at least some idea of the whereabouts of one of these recordings and that if he were ever charged, his family and his colleagues at the FBI would be the ones who might go to the same conclusion.
"The guy is nuts. There was a tape, there i
The Government must decide whether to allow the state to adopt a water utility bill. Picture: Simon Schluter
The new system would put water users in control of water use – with the state government being allowed to decide how much water it consumes, and how much it should spend on conservation.
The Premier has committed a cap of 3 per cent of people receiving water supplies under the Victorian Government's water scheme for drought, flooding and bushfires emergencies – but that figure could be adjusted after it is finalised.
The Premier is expected to give her decision to the State Government in the spring, but Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said it was important "that they get this right".
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said the Government must decide on the proposed water utility bill when it takes advice from an independent panel set up by the Premier's department on April 27.
"This decision is in the interests of the Victorians, their children, their grandchildren and will ensure the most efficient use of Victorian resources," Mr Guy said.
Victorian Water and Energy Minister, Mark Brown, said the proposal was in the best interests of Victorian consumers.
"The Victorian Water and Energy Commission has put forward a set of reforms that provide greater flexibility and independence, while still ensuring that consumers have the highest choice of water supply for as long as their household electricity supply is available," he said.
"It's critical that we are all aware of how water is used – and the decisions made by water suppliers, when these water supplies are most needed and where water needs are greatest.
"This reform is essential in order for the state to continue to deliver what it is delivering and where it has got the best water to meet demand.
"This reform is designed to promote long-term water affordability and reduce future costs for Victorian households. It is also in the interest of all Victorians that the water supply is provided in a reliable, cost effective and high quality product – a level of water that is affordable and will serve the people and the communities that live in the area."
Opposition Water Minister Lisa Neville said the Government had no plans to go ahead with water utility bills.
"This is yet another unnecessary expense that the Government is putting on consumers and this is yet another unnecessary tax break and the Government is being dishonest for what they are doing," she said.
"This isn't fair, it's a taxpayer-funded holiday for private corporations and for businesses to choose and not everyone can afford their water bill, and in some cases those who can't are being left out of pocket."
'Dying for our water'
Dr Nick D'Costa, Water Australia's head of state for drought, floods an
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Former notw executive recounts phone hacking plot with FBI
A law enforcement officer who has worked on the cases of both John Lennon and Paul McCartney believes the FBI sought to keep a file on him long after he left the police force to become an officer with the FBI.
The officer, identified only as Thomas E., says he met his husband, David, in the early 1990s, at a concert he was attending when Lennon had been charged with assault and battery and released on bail and became a high-ranking member of the LAPD. E. says that as soon as he left his job as a security guard, his new wife received a call from FBI agent Michael St. Joseph on his answering machine.
As E. explained to the Times Union, St. Joseph told him the FBI was investigating him as well and he was asked by two FBI agents to become an undercover officer investigating Lennon's drug-laced concerts and concerts in which the Beatles — who had been making money off drugs while filming live concerts — played.
This was the same story that had been told of the alleged telephone hacking of Lennon's "We Shall Overcome" tapes — a story that eventually made the FBI withdraw its request to search the Lennon home. And as St. Joseph explains, in the late 1990s, he and Lennon's mother would frequently go out on the town and attend shows for the Beatles.
But St. Joseph says he was told that even though the "We'll Overcome" tapes had been taped at the time, there was absolutely no evidence linking the pair to the crime.
"That we're looking into it as though it's not even in the statute book. It's not there for the statute book to be looked at," St. Joseph says, adding that the FBI and its agents were aware that he and Lennon's mother and a sister had attended concerts by the Beatles in the Los Angeles area.
But St. Joseph says the FBI has always been careful to keep these kinds of recordings out of public view as well and his story — he says he was given "numerous" requests and "multiple opportunities" to explain to the agency that he wasn't related to Lennon or any other person and wouldn't be sharing the information with any other agency.
E. says St. Joseph said that he and his family, and, eventually, the agent, were told that all of these allegations, if true, would lead to a grand jury.
E. says he believes that the FBI had at least some idea of the whereabouts of one of these recordings and that if he were ever charged, his family and his colleagues at the FBI would be the ones who might go to the same conclusion.
"The guy is nuts. There was a tape, there i