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

One thing we are not going to do is simply tell Adelaide and Murray irrigators to move north, as is Senator Joyce’s new water policy for the coalition. I look forward to the Liberals in South Australia advertising that policy. This government will continue with its reform. We look forward to the independent authority delivering its plan—the plan that Senator Joyce wants to kill before it has even been announced. The question is, of course: what will the Liberal Party do? We know that Senator Joyce opposes bringing the River Murray back to health, he opposes water purchase and he opposes water reform, but the real question is: what will Senator Birmingham and the members for Sturt and Mayo do? Will they stand up for their constituents against the National Party, which is opposed to reform on water?