Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. I am not intimately familiar with the previous promises that were made by the coalition when they were in government in respect of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system. I am happy to come back to you on the question of detail that you ask. But I would make one observation, and it is this: for nearly 11 years we had significant inaction on the part of the Commonwealth in relation to providing the necessary support for restoring our river systems to health in the Murray-Darling Basin and around the country as well. I am happy to take the question on notice.

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