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Philip
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Failure to plan for the future

I have had to close the family business due to the failure of the state governments to provide sufficient water storage for the population growth. We have got plenty of water in our dams, but the people will not buy plants during level six restrictions. I have watched a bulldozer push over six hundred thousand dollars worth of palms and twenty five years of work.

Twenty years ago, the QLD government sold land that was to be a new dam saying that we don't need any more water. Since then they have failed to build dams. We now store one third of the water per person as compared to twenty years ago. We should have been able to survive a drought for three times as long as this except for the state governments failure. Unfortunately, we have governments in NSW and VIC that also have failed to provide adequate levels of water storage.

There have been many nurseries go to the wall in the last few years. Some of the nurseries were multimillion dollars businesses that had been past down from generation to generation.

We have held out for many years hoping for a turn around, but now we seem to be heading towards a federal government that will also fail to provide for the future. We have already struggled through one federal government that brought us high taxes, high unemployment and high interest rates. We don't want to do it again.
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Post Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:01 am 
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cerberus3112



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sorry to hear that sounds like our freinds they owned a nursiere for a few generations then they had to shut down earlier this year because of the drought Sad
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