Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

We are not walking away. As I just outlined, we are implementing the plan as agreed and as the terms are written in black and white. That is what we are doing. That is what we are committed to.

There are some people in this debate who are treating people with contempt—that is definitely the case. We know that the South Australian water minister, the other week, did treat people definitely with contempt. We know that certain words was used, which I cannot repeat here, words that might rhyme with 'firetruck'. Those words were used, and the South Australian Premier has not, that I have seen yet, condemned that behaviour. He has walked past that behaviour. He is not condemning it. That is what I would call 'contemptible behaviour'. That behaviour should be condemned, but it is not being by the South Australian Premier. He should come out and admonish his minister about it, but he came out and excused it on ABC radio the other day. That is inexcusable. That should be condemned.