Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

That last addition by the minister may provide at least some modicum of clarity, because I was scratching my head at the explanation, thinking that I have been dealing with 93 per cent figures for quite some period of time and that we had an expansion of greenfields for a period of time and that none of that appeared to be terribly new. It still seems odd, Minister, that this was not perhaps fixed up through an amendment in the other place before it came here, but I shall take your word for it that this has been known for some period of time and is of little consequence when compared to the more substantive amendments related to Commonwealth ownership provisions that the opposition will be moving in a moment.