Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

) ( ): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Senator Canavan. On Monday, a group of prominent scientists and economists released the Murray-Darling Declaration, showing that there's no scientific evidence that the billions of dollars that taxpayers have spent on water recovery projects under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan have achieved any increase in net stream flows. The Chairperson of the Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations, Fred Hooper, is in the gallery today. On his behalf, I'd like to ask you: why is it that taxpayers and downstream communities are spending billions of dollars and yet the river is still dying?