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By Mark McGovern, published 2/3/2007Like some Western hero, the Commonwealth is now seen riding into town to impose good order over the Murray-Darling.
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Peter Beattie, premier of Queensland brought it up again just recently, with the same answer from critics that it
could be done, but would cost too bloody much?
Well now, if it can be done, surely now is the time with Costello just blowing his bags that he now has over one trillion bucks in his Future Fund.
A major problem above the headlands of the Darling in upper Queensland seems to be sandy soils which cannot carry the flow of water even with massive channelling.
It has been so interesting to note the work of the huge Japanese mechanical borer used under the precincts of southern Perth as part of the almost completed railway line to Mandurah.
Just ask Peter for a half dozen Jap borers to drill through that Queensland high country and it could be Bob's your Uncle to overflow the Murray, and maybe we could do something similar in WA from the Ord and Fitzroy, especially as water after a major downpour flows naturally from well north of Wiluna all the way to the Moore River just north of Perth.