Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise in the chamber today to object to the attempt by the Queensland Labor government to steal water from the Sunshine Coast to give to Brisbane, which is in a desperate situation because of the Labor government’s failure in the past to plan. The water issue has not been far from the front-page headlines in recent months, and there would be few who doubt that it will continue to be very prominent. We on the Sunshine Coast are very upset about the attempted move by the state Labor government to pipe water from our region’s largest water supply, Lake Baroon, to Brisbane. The extreme water shortages in south-east Queensland are the result of the Rudd Labor government’s failure to build the Wolfdene dam a number of years ago.

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