Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I again ask the minister: does the minister acknowledge that South Australia has stuck to extraction caps since 1968 whereas other states have not? And, at a recent public meeting into the draft Basin Plan in Renmark in South Australia, Minister Burke indicated that he accepted the criticism that many South Australian irrigators were unable to access a $5.8 billion federal fund for water-saving measures because they were already too efficient to qualify. The minister said the issue was being addressed. How is that issue being addressed?