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

The previous one was the first—thank you, Senator Ferguson—and this is now the second. If I can just refer you first to the provisions of the Water Act, which obviously contains things such as the water market rules and a process for creating the water market and water trading rules, I would also just make the point that there is a lot of discussion in this place and other places about legal advice, constitutional bases and all of these issues. I refer the senator to what was released yesterday by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, and also to the submission to the committee. We can have a long discussion about rules but ultimately the problem in the Murray-Darling Basin is lack of availability of water. (Time expired)