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

Queensland has confirmed to the ministerial forum that the new plan will be ‘fully compliant with all state, national and international agreements, including the Lake Eyre Basin Intergovernmental Agreement’. That IGA has, as its primary purpose, the development and implementation of policies and strategies that avoid, or eliminate as far as is reasonably practicable, adverse cross-border impacts in the basin. I have asked my parliamentary secretary to ensure that, from the Commonwealth’s perspective, the provisions of the IGA continue to be utilised to protect the ecological characteristics of key assets within the basin, including the internationally significant Coongie Lakes, which as you know is a Ramsar site.