Senate debates
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Water Amendment Bill 2008
Consideration of House of Representatives Message
10:54 pm
Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
At the end of the motion, add:
but, due to the Government’s failure to support in the House the amendments made by the Senate, the Senate calls on the Government to immediately:
(a) prohibit construction of the North-South Pipeline and extraction of water from the Goulburn and Murray rivers for use in that pipeline;
(b) ensure that water saved through the Living Murray Initiative is immediately guaranteed and then released for environmental flows in the Goulburn and Murray Rivers and to replenish the Lower Lakes; and
(c) deliver $50 million in emergency relief funding to the Lower Lakes and Coorong communities.
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