Tony Windsor (New England, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the role of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister in signing off on water entitlement allocations to the six New South Wales valleys involved in the Achieving Sustainable Groundwater Entitlements program as recommended by the Groundwater Adjustment Advisory Committee some two months ago. I do not want to overdramatise the urgency of this decision, but the Prime Minister and the parliamentary secretary should be aware that irrigators are making critical planning decisions relating to their cropping activities on the basis of unknown water entitlements and need an urgent decision at government level. Could the Prime Minister or the parliamentary secretary update the House on progress relating to this issue.

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