Damian Drum (Nicholls, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

We have a situation now where the people of the Murray-Darling Basin simply want an outcome. By agreeing to the Labor Party's dissension motion against the Speaker's ruling it is going to give us an opportunity to have a political debate in here that has nothing to do with the outcomes in the amendments. I know deep in my heart that the four amendments that I've put forward here will all be knocked away by the Labor Party. They go to the core of what the Labor Party disagree with. They go to the core of what the Labor Party do not believe in. There is not—

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