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26 May 2008
LABOR’S RUTHLESS ATTEMPT TO CRUSH COMMUNITY RESISTANCE TO THE DESALINATION PLANT
Flinders’ MP Greg Hunt has condemned the State and Federal Governments for their determination to pursue Your Water Your Say for costs after an unsuccessful legal challenge to the desalination plant.
Mr Hunt said the application for costs to be awarded against the community group betrayed an unwarranted level of vindictiveness on the part of the State and Federal Labor Governments.
“The Your Water Your Say group is made up of community members whose only crime is to care deeply about the environment and to want to protect the stunning Kilcunda coastline,” Mr Hunt said.
“For the two Labor Governments to pursue these people for costs, with the full knowledge that this would inevitably bankrupt the group, reveals a ruthless determinat