Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

as the megalitre-per-person requirements increase and the megalitre storage per person reduces. We have, in this nation, lived off the back of water infrastructure of people in the past who had the vision and foresight to build it—people such as Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. When he built Wivenhoe Dam, everybody said it was too big; now they say it's too small. We will continue to drive further water infrastructure in places such as North Queensland, and there are a number of programs on the table as we speak. We will continue in this process because we know that is how you generate jobs and that is how you build wealth. That is something that I think is an exceptional part of the vision of this nation's government.

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