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

And of course that, Senator Wong, will be exactly the same approach you will take to the Beattie report. You bring in Peter Beattie; you make a grand announcement. You will get a report, but do you know what will happen with that report? Like everything else, it will gather dust, because it will have just been an announcement of talk masquer­ading as action. It is not action at all. It is not policy. It is not planning. It is just putting masking tape over the mistakes of this government and over the fact that Senator Carr is unable in this industry space to run a comprehensive policy that actually saves Australian jobs rather than bleeds Australian jobs.

Question agreed to.