<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0806e00f-a003-4532-a4f6-05fcb1e0f345/62F56F0A-EFB3-4DF6-B645-95B942ACDB05/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><TD width="100%" id="pgraphA" class="fparagraph"><FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"> </FONT><P align="center"><DIV> <FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><B>Council backing of state stance questioned</B> </FONT></DIV> <FONT size="2" face="MS Sans Serif"> Written by <B>SIMONE KERWIN</B>.</FONT> </P><P>A PUBLIC meeting in Wangaratta this evening will attempt to counter "<B>a lot of misinformation</B>" about the National Plan for Water Security, according to Sophie Mirabella (MHR, Indi).</p> <P>Federal Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull, will attend the meeting to help explain and answer questions about the government’s $10 billion water plan.</p> <P>Victoria is the only state concerned that has refused to sign off on the Commonwealth’s plan to take control of the Murray-Darling Basin, which is currently jointly managed by the four adjoining states.</p> <P>And the State Government’s position has received support from Rural City of Wangaratta council.</p> <P>Mrs Mirabella said this evening’s public meeting is an opportunity for local residents to reach informed views on the hotly debated water plan.</p> <P>"<B>People want information; there is a lot of misinformation around,</B>" she said.</p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/62F56F0A-EFB3-4DF6-B645-95B942ACDB05/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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