Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

is a disgrace—thank you. If a group like this has come together, can it not put its mind and turn its attention to something constructive? For example, I talk about representing the Murray River and make the point that about half of the water that flows to South Australia, whose allocation is about 1,860 gigalitres a year, evaporates in the lower lakes. We have lower lakes in South Australia that are held in place by barrages, but they are lower lakes full of fresh water. It is okay to need the water level there and it is okay to have the lifestyle activities there—I am not arguing with that—but why does it have to be fresh water that has come all the way from the high country in New South Wales and Victoria to sit in the lower lakes?

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