David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

The government has committed to establish a co-benefits index to help the market reward co-benefits such as biodiversity. In your summation of the issues around water—an issue with which I know you are very familiar—you were taking a long and historical view. I would simply say that this legislation is setting about the task for which it is designed. As you would appreciate, there is, I would submit, a comprehensive government strategy, well assisted by the work of the relevant committee, to deal with those water security questions.