Breaking News: ultimate Beattie backflip - SEQ poll cancelled ...

Premier Beattie adopts the Singapore 'democracy' model for 'Beattie Bitter'.

It's the ultimate Beattie backflip - designed to create as much public consternation as possible in the lead up to the trials of his former Ministers.

Premier Beattie will shortly announce he is cancelling the $10 million recycled water poll and will pump up to 100% recycled water into Wivenhoe Dam.

He recognises that a complete lack of infrastructure planning has left the Beattie government in need of the 'quick and dirty' fix which is recycled water for drinking.

He knows that the polls show that his plebiscite would have been soundly defeated.

He will tell you that he has saved the State $10 million but how much has already been spent on legislation, advertising and advisers?

Will the next Beattie backflip be a shift to just using the recycled water for the power stations?

All Premier Beattie has done is ensure that the next Council elections in 2008 are fought on the single issue of drinking recycled water ...

Excerpt from the Sunday Mail:

Beattie axes $10 million poll

28 January 2007

Southeast Queenslanders will have no choice on drinking recycled water after all, The Sunday Mail can reveal.

Premier Peter Beattie is expected to perform a spectacular backflip today and scrap his plans for a controversial $10 million plebiscite in March on the water issue.

Barring a major cyclone and accompanying rains, recycled effluent will be pumped into major dams as soon as the new water grid pipeline is completed late next year.

Mr Beattie said yesterday the final details of the decision to dump the plebiscite would be made public today or tomorrow.

But he made it clear the decision in principle had already been made.

"There's no choice. The reality is there is no choice," he said.

See - Sunday Mail - Beattie's ultimate backflip.