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

The member for Murray comes in here and hectors me about principles. Given the question she put in question time today, I would have thought she was the last person in the world to give me a lecture on principles. But let me just remind the member opposite that as environment minister I have made it clear that under my approval under the EPBC Act no water can be taken from savings allocated to the Living Murray initiative, from Water for Rivers entitlements, which includes the Snowy, or from environmental reserves, and all water savings projects supplying the pipeline are independently audited and compliant with the EPBC Act. At this particular point in time, I propose that the question now be put.

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