Bligh - water infrastructure report on hold while government plots asset heist ...

Report sits on QWC desk while Beattie and Bligh figure out the best way to slip the water infrastructure assets out of council hands and into their privatisation vehicle.

Excerpt from ABC News:

Bligh says water infrastructure findings still weeks away

23 April 2007

It could be another six weeks before the results of an audit into Council-owned water infrastructure is publicly released.

The State Government ordered the review last month to decide whether to completely take-over water from the Councils or appoint a single coordinating authority.

Deputy Premier Anna Bligh says the draft report is now with the Water Commission.

She says the Commission will use it to make recommendations to the Government and it will be made public when it is finalised.

"These are complex issues and we need to look at them and consider them very carefully," she said.

"We need to get it right, we won't get a second bite at this cherry, but that report will be released when we have made decisions in relation to it."

See - We're coming for your water assets.