David Littleproud (Maranoa, National Party, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources) Share this | Hansard source

They are destroying the livelihoods of two million Australians up and down the Murray-Darling Basin, because they are worried about Jay Weatherill and Nick Xenophon getting a vote. That's what it comes down to—pure politics. It's pure politics by the Australian Labor Party and now Nick Xenophon and the NXT. It's nothing more than a cold, callous political machine that both of you have turned into. You are destroying the livelihoods of those people, and you should hang your heads in shame.

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