Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My point is that it is of great interest and relevance—and not for any political purpose—to people involved in water, in particular in Northern Australia, and for the agriculture sector in particular and for primary industry in general. It is very important that they know who is on the committee, how it will operate and who they can go to for representations—apart from writing a letter to Senator Heffernan. They need to know whether there is a secretariat, who runs it, who controls it and what its guidelines are.

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