Not to mention Fester water privatization is only 'inevitable' if the politicians in charge were itching to make a buck off selling it and don't really care- and we throw our support behind them anyway.

There is no logical or moral justification or excuse one could possibly make to warrant selling water rights, if the best reason is filtering and purifying (ignoring that most modern household appliances, including refrigerators, have their own filtration units as a standard feature).

Not that that would stop them from simply selling the water and not even pretending they did it for our benefit at all.

King Hazza

I also think it a given that there is a strong profit motive behind the privatisation push. But the push would come to nothing without the belief that population growth is a driver of economic prosperity.

To all, here is a range of terms you used in this thread that absolutely alarm me.

Privatisation push, inevitable, selling our rights, public pays through the nose, no basis to assume they will improve the quality, no choice but to use, we do not enjoy "clean clear uncontaminated water", billions that they have wasted on less vital projects, already own and control 50% of many Australians water supplies, our leaders were bought by the Captains of Industry, trust patently interested gamblers near our wealth.

If we had a government with 10% vision we would have spent the BER billions on water, and actually achieved something even though half the money would have been legally swindled from us. No government of the last thirty years has protected our homogeneous right to cheap sustainable water supply for our nation.

Here are the price rises over the last two years.
QLD 32%, NSW 36%, NT 26%, WA 30%, TAS 27%, SA 25%, ACT 30%, Victoria deregulated and "increases" vary between suppliers, but Vic is cheaper than QLD and NSW. I am opposed to foreign ownership of vital resource such as power, water, and land. I want Australian control of these things if the shiesen and the fan collide.

Those price hikes are for electricity and gas, not water but the numbers are similar.

Here are the price rises over the last two years.
QLD 32%, NSW 36%, NT 26%, WA 30%, TAS 27%, SA 25%, ACT 30%, Victoria deregulated and "increases" vary between suppliers, but Vic is cheaper than QLD and NSW. I am opposed to foreign ownership of vital resource such as power, water, and land. I want Australian control of these things if the shiesen and the fan collide.

Sadly, the horses have bolted Sonofgloin, hence Bernard's Thread; similarly, as have most of our companies and land been 'sold down the river'. In respect to Land and development; I came to terms with this years ago; positives for Australians in relation to acquiring homes however sad and disappointed regarding the wonderful old notorious companies forced or lured to sell out during tough times with zilch government support or tax breaks.

Land, Food, Water: what's next on the list? Our whole country and its people ie 'communism'?

We Are Unique- and given that our government(s) is probably the most privatization-happy and nationalization-fearing in the Western World, there is zilch chance that they would even try to call the horse back, so to speak- unless a party that seriously endorses nationalization comes into government.