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

EPROUD (—) (): Can I firstly acknowledge the motion put by the member for Nicholls—the genuine intent about the unnecessary trauma that this new government is placing on basin communities and the uncertainty that they've brought into the Murray-Darling Basin and to those communities that, as the member for Nicholls quite clearly articulated, have taken the pain.

Let me give a lesson to the member for Boothby—who I appreciate is new to this place and might only be talking off the Labor Party talking points—of the history of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the history of what the coalition was able to achieve. I can say that with authority as a former water minister. Can I tell you—

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