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

It's very important to remember why we signed onto this plan in the first place—a plan, incidentally, which those opposite say they still support, despite these interjections we hear today. We did this coming out of the millennium drought because we know that the river system, if it continued in the way that it was going, was dying. (Time expired)

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