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Victoria January to June 2016

Victoria January to June 2016 620 Political Chronicles Victoria January to June 2016 NICK ECONOMOU Monash University After the fearful fires that burned along the state’s west coast on Christmas Day in 2015, Victorians braced themselves for a horror summer, not least because of signs that yet another prolonged dry period was re-creating the sort of conditions reminiscent of the Black Saturday fires of 2009. Indeed, the prolonged dry period moved the state’s Labor government and its Premier, Daniel Andrews, to announce that it would expedite an order for water from the de-salination plant that had been constructed at Wonthaggi on the state’s south-east coast, but had so far produced not a drop of water. The government also announced a return of the “155 litres a day” target as part of its campaign to encourage water conservation amongst the citizenry. The press, for its part, heralded news of the commissioning of the plant with warnings of an imminent imposition of an extra $12 levy on water bills, and the opposition returned to its favourite theme of accusing a previous Labor government of being responsible for the construction of a “white elephant” (Age, 3 March 2016). This represented a return to a recurring theme in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2016 School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
ISSN
0004-9522
eISSN
1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/ajph.12309
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620 Political Chronicles Victoria January to June 2016 NICK ECONOMOU Monash University After the fearful fires that burned along the state’s west coast on Christmas Day in 2015, Victorians braced themselves for a horror summer, not least because of signs that yet another prolonged dry period was re-creating the sort of conditions reminiscent of the Black Saturday fires of 2009. Indeed, the prolonged dry period moved the state’s Labor government and its Premier, Daniel Andrews, to announce that it would expedite an order for water from the de-salination plant that had been constructed at Wonthaggi on the state’s south-east coast, but had so far produced not a drop of water. The government also announced a return of the “155 litres a day” target as part of its campaign to encourage water conservation amongst the citizenry. The press, for its part, heralded news of the commissioning of the plant with warnings of an imminent imposition of an extra $12 levy on water bills, and the opposition returned to its favourite theme of accusing a previous Labor government of being responsible for the construction of a “white elephant” (Age, 3 March 2016). This represented a return to a recurring theme in

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Australian Journal of Politics and HistoryWiley

Published: Dec 1, 2016

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