Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition set aside $5.8 billion in the 2007 Water Act for vital water-saving infrastructure. To date, just $437 million has been rolled out when about $700 million should have been spent. Not one cent has been rolled out in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in the Riverina electorate that I represent. I call on the Labor government, which claims it is interested in regional Australia but is yet to prove it, to start delivering this vital water-saving infrastructure for the good of regional farming communities and the good of the nation.

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