Senate debates

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Questions without Notice

Murray-Darling River System

2:35 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

And the answer is: we are providing $320 million to these communities. We are providing $320 million to deal with these urgent issues. We are also attempting to deal, over the longer term, with the purchase of water, unlike those opposite, to ensure environmental flows. Again I say: those opposite, as the alternative government, should do better than giving one message to people downstream, in Adelaide, while telling those upstream something different. (Time expired)

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