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Privatising Australia's water : Comments
By Selwyn Johnston, published 9/2/2006The sale of water assets though privatisation is very tempting for Australian state treasurers.
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The suffering and deprivations following Bechtels attempt to screw the local population and actually cut them off from a life source brought out a massive uprising and rebellion after price hikes from 60% to 90% to satisfy corporate greed (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6670 )
The only question I would now ask is - "would Australians have the same courage, the same intestitudinal fortuitude to take the same actions Bolivians did?"
I doubt it as most of them are more concerned in keeping within their own little comfort zone and sucking up to the big yankee corporations, than keeping Australia free