John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question certainly follows on from that statement. My question is also to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Yesterday the minister claimed that he would not attend community briefings on the Murray-Darling Basin guide because he did not want to be ‘looking over the shoulder of an independent inquiry’. As the minister is now meeting with irrigator peak groups in the familiar surrounds of Canberra and as this is the great moral dilemma of our time, why won’t he travel to meet face to face with irrigators at one of the remaining 19 community briefings in the basin?

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