Tony Pasin (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll go back to what I started with: the herculean grandstanding. I take my lead from very serious people in the Riverland. Take, for example, Gavin McMahon, who not only runs the Central Irrigation Trust but is also chair of the National Irrigators Council—he lives right down the bottom end of the river—and Chris Byrne, who heads up Riverland Wine. Do you know what they're saying to me? They've gone to print on this, as well. They're urging caution against the sort of hysterical overreaction we've seen from Labor. I'll add in others—Xenophon—who have said as much, noting that the Murray-Darling Basin is working and that we need to allow these authorities to undertake their investigations.

If those who live in Adelaide were so seriously concerned about the river, particularly those in the Labor Party, they'd help me with some things. They'd help me by building an interconnector between lakes Albert and Alexandrina.

Ms Rishworth interjecting—

No, I'm sorry, Jay Weatherill has to put the infrastructure request to us

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