Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Cotton Australia has come out and said, and very sensibly so, that irrigators must not be asked to bear the cost of water reform alone. They recognise that they have to share the responsibility, but they should not have to bear it alone—and that is the view of the Beattie Labor government in Queensland. So, whilst the federal coalition government—

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