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

by leave—I just want to indicate our opposition to this. I think Senator Xenophon knows that we do not believe, for the reasons I outlined last night, that the history of who is better is the way the government should be assessing the contributions to particular districts or regions. I have had a lot of people come before me and say that they are the most efficient irrigation district in Australia. I do not engage in that discussion, because I do not think that is helpful. The reason the government did not support that is that it simply buys into that kind of discussion.