Toilet-to-tap poll ...
Premier Beattie is having an each way bet.
He's building dams but if the Yes vote should win, suddenly his Armageddon solution for Brisbane will become his first choice.
Politics!
An except from the Courier Mail:
Toilet-to-tap poll
By Steven Wardill
July 27, 2006
QUEENSLAND voters appear headed for an early election with the main issue being the proposal to add recycled sewage to the southeast's dwindling water supplies.
Premier Peter Beattie yesterday said he might seek an election mandate from voters to add recycled water into the region's major dams.
Mr Beattie will use this weekend's referendum on recycled sewage in Toowoomba as a touchstone towards community attitudes to the controversial water proposal.
Admitting he was an avid supporter of drinking recycled sewage, Mr Beattie said he would seek Queensland's support either through a state election or linking a vote to the 2008 council elections.
The mandate declaration put the Opposition on an instant election footing, with deputy leader Jeff Seeney advising his opposition to the proposal.
Source - Courier Mail - Toilet-to-Tap poll.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 10:50 AM
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From ABC News - a losing election platform:
Beattie hints at recycled water election platform
As south-east Queensland edges towards level four water restrictions, Premier Peter Beattie says he could make drinking treated effluent an election platform.
But the Opposition says he would be judged harshly.
Toowoomba, in southern Queensland, is only two days away from the ballot that will decide whether to add recycled water to its drinking supply.
Mr Beattie says if the result is a yes vote he would consider asking voters at the next state election if the Wivenhoe Dam could also be topped up with waste water.
But he says the south-east corner's dwindling water supplies will not affect the timing of the poll.
"Level four restrictions will have no influence on my decision," he said.
"I'm not going to tempt God, I'm going to pray for it to rain."
The Opposition's Jeff Seeney says drinking waste water should not be an option.
"I think this will become a symbol of Peter Beattie's failure," he said.
"I think if he wants to make this an election platform he will be harshly judged."
Mr Seeney says the Coalition would campaign strongly against it.
2:14 PM, July 27, 2006
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