Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

There are not a lot of irrigators on the Gold Coast! They're not buying apartments on the Gold Coast! I'll go back to the member for Mayo's question, because it really is a very substantial question. We know that the infrastructure projects, if I can put it that way, that are supposed to return water to the system are behind time, are overbudget in some cases and won't deliver what they were originally said to deliver. It's also true that, of the 450 gigalitres of additional environmental water that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, just two of those gigalitres were delivered when we took over. We are a long way from delivering on the 450 gigalitres part of the plan as well. I can assure the member for Mayo that we are working very closely with state and territory governments across the Murray-Darling Basin system.

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