Water poll redux - Praises heaped on 'hero' housewife ...
Press article following the overwhelming rejection of the outgoing Mayor's plan to build the white elephant recycled water plant in Toowoomba.
Excerpt from the Courier Mail:
Praises heaped on 'hero' housewife
By Amanda Gearing
30 July 2006
Toowoomba housewife Rosemary Morley has become an overnight folk hero after successfully opposing a $460,000 council campaign to introduce water recycling.
Mrs Morley has received dozens of phone calls of congratulation from local residents as well as from people interstate and overseas since news of the "no" case win emerged.
"I've lost my voice today with so many people who can't say thank you enough," she said yesterday.
"I won, I won, I won. It was a hell of a battle but I wouldn't have missed it for quids."
She said more than a dozen people had phoned saying they had been going to leave Toowoomba if recycling was to be introduced and were relieved that they now did not have to leave town.
"We are going to have our clean, green image again," she said.
Mrs Morley said the campaign had overtaken her life for the past year.
"There has not been much time for my husband and family, but I was encouraged to keep going by the courage and sheer determination of everyday people," she said.
"All we had was a computer, a phone and a photocopier. We had no paid staff and this has all been done by the community."
She admitted to being surprised by the breadth of community concern about recycling, which ranged from young people to the elderly and from professional people to tradesmen.
"That's why I find it so offensive at being labelled a flat earther. It shouldn't have been said and it doesn't apply," she said.
Looking to the future, Mrs Morley said she had no big plans and would wait and see what happened.
Cr Lyle Shelton, one of three councillors against recycling, praised Mrs Morley for enduring what he called a campaign of vilification by City Hall.
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posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:36 AM
2 Comments:
After re-reading this article it reminded me that the more things change the more the stay the same.
This 6 pack of Singapore Sewer Sipper councillors have to go because they have not changed and would have another go at introducing recycled sewage water if they were elected onto the new regional council.
They are lazy and have never made any attempt to have a look at the reasons why the majority rejected the ridiculous plan to experiment with our water supply by injection of treated sewage water into the dam.
This council and engineering department simply do not have the institutional capacity to take on such a programme.
We need Rosemary Morley and a few more like her on the Toowoomba and Regional Council as she will never let us down.
4:39 PM, January 13, 2008
If you are going to bring up all the press clippings about the councillors, they'll be tossed out for sure!
5:05 PM, January 13, 2008
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