Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

should understand that it was a coalition government, it was the Howard government, that for the first time took national responsibility for water in the Murray-Darling Basin. Labor governments had taken no interest in this. It was our side of politics that recognised the challenge of managing water, and managing water as between the environment and agriculture is always a complex management issue.

Ms Rishworth interjecting—

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