Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

If I could continue without interjection, these are matters that governments need to consider without being burdened with the matter before us—that is, ownership of shares in this company. Nothing that is done with the shares in Snowy Hydro has any bearing on this, but our government is probably the first government in Australian history to recognise the extent of the issues and is proud of the extent to which it is making very substantial investments in ensuring that it does as much as it possibly can to restore the health of the Murray River.