Mr Beazley would not say how his plans would be funded - he would only rule out how it would not be funded. We don't believe rural and regional communities should be told the salinity problem can be fixed but only if telecommunications services are slashed. Yet this is effectively what the Howard Government is saying. If the Howard Government wanted to pay for its clean-up with the revenue from the sale, the opposition would oppose it. Environment Minister Robert Hill said later that Labor was unlikely to have the funding in office to combat the massive salinity problem.
Labor seems to be cutting off all the options.
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