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

The member does not understand. Those conditions were made quite clear by me when I made that approval. I make the point, through you, Mr Speaker, that it beggars belief that opposition members would get up and talk about their concerns for water and the environment. I am referring to the opposition’s extraordinary track record of neglect, when in government, in its exercising of national leadership over the issue of the water health of the Murray-Darling Basin. It is a fact.

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