To the manorinas and pelicans of the post.

Great hysteria, shame about your narrow focus. So suppose you are

nice and comfortable in your private enterprise housing estate

making you thousands in profit as years escalate housing prices,

bloating your back pockets! Shame about the homeless eh. And do you

winge as loudly when governments hold down taxation with innovations

such as joint PP investments in Australian infrastructure projects.

And where would be national defence without private investment: No

bullets and bombs! Not on our side at the least. What fools are you?

When I was a kid the water supply was unmetered. You could leave the tap running all day and only worry about how long it would take for the puddle to dry up. Playing under the backyard sprinkler was a summer past time, and filling the swimming pool was a guilt free exercise. Now I regularly hear about the immorality of having a lawn or flushing the dunny when I take a piss.

Water demonstrates the dishonesty of the population growth cult mantra "More people = more and for less". As water privatisation shows, the objective of the growth cultists is to to stuff up the Australian lifestyle for the sake of profiting a few parasites.

Manorina,
Our leaders were bought by the Captains of Industry ? Well, from what I see everywhere the Captains of Industry in turn continue to be bought by the consumers.

I would be amazed, but unfortunately, not surprised, if many voters would not weigh this as an issue into the election.
I am also very disappointed with how few answers this article has received.

But I would like to ask anyone skeptical about this if they could make a list of Australian issues (that is, ones actually likely to happen as a result of electing any party) MORE serious than water privatization and its full implications (especially, again, considering that this is Australia and the companies or individuals most likely to 'step up to the plate'.
Go ahead, give it a try.

(i) Trade [exports] = Liberal/National Country Party = significant support and backbone for the economy: this is what the Party should represent and be a primary focus
(ii) Supporting business = Liberal = exports, employment growth & stimulation of economy
(iii) Surplus = Liberal - strong economy/eases financial pressure for most Australians.

However, most of the benefits enjoyed by Australians years ago has been to the credit of Peter Costello and previous Treasurers. Without a highly intelligent Treasurer and Economist keeping Australia's deficit low and in check, Australians will be struggling financially. Period. Disregard who ever plays King or Queen for the Term [and their teams]. Factor in the Treasurers of each party also.

Hi Bernard, it is occurring within other states of Australia also.

If you find time to research other State governments you will discover that a major Singapore company and its subsidiaries, already own and control 50% of many Australians water supplies.

The shock and horror is about to commence when Australians discover that their water bills are about to double shortly and in all probability discover that, through no foresight, gross mismanagement and overspending by governments, that there wont be a shower to enjoy daily, in addition to enjoying the clean clear uncontaminated water consumed over the past 20 years.

I recommend people commence boiling their water if they continue to be ill [minus viruses and other health factors ruled out] in addition to requesting your state government to test water in your homes regularly for the correct content percentages ie chlorine/lime levels.

Other helpful tips are to request that your pipes are checked every few years, given that many pipes in various city suburbs, laid 20 years ago, have now been discovered as pipes that should not have been laid at all. Many leak and disintegrate causing expensive plumbing problems and can interfere with the quality of drinking water.

In closing, I suggest further that Australians start lobbying governments for the payment of water tanks to be installed in their back yards.

If governments over past years had done their homework correctly, more dams and innovative concepts could have been introduced and implemented prior to 'significant' drought that continued over the past 30 years.

An excellent and overdue article Bernard.

Kind regards.