Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. My question concerns progress on the intergovernmental agreement on the Murray-Darling Basin reform and the referral of powers by states and territories required to give effect to the agreement and to establish a basin plan. Can the minister inform the Senate how many of the states and territories of the Murray-Darling Basin have passed this enabling legislation? How many have even drafted and introduced such legislation in time to meet the 1 November 2008 deadline, as committed to in the IGA? Will any states or territories be able to meet this deadline and will the promised reforms of the intergovernmental agreement be in place by 1 November 2008?