Water charges controversy: Coalition is in danger of drowning

When will this government wake up and recognise that people are sick and tired of the Coalition’s hobnail-boot approach to the vexed issue of water charges?

There is a growing public perception that politicians are utterly out of touch with the economic realities facing thousands of families up and down the country. How easily forgotten it is that their comfortable pay, perks, and pensions come from the pockets of bruised and battered taxpayers.

Not a single politician in the land has any concept of what it means to go to bed hungry. More than words can tell, the past weekend was a powerful display of this. Even the organisers were surprised by the turnout in teeming rain in more than 100 cities, towns and villages across the country. People power has finally confronted the administration’s heavy-handed line of attack.