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

Mr Speaker, I hear the interjections. The National Party like to say they were on track to deliver the plan. Well, on their rate of progress, we would get there around the year 3000!

We'd have robot dogs, bionic humans and the National Party water minister lugging the last buckets of water down to the Murray-Darling Basin. This plan delivers more time, more money, more options and more accountability. We are determined to see more water returned for the environment, more certainty for farmers, communities and the three million people who rely on this river system for their drinking water, more protection for our native plants and animals and more hope for this iconic river system.

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