Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. Last year, One Nation senators, including myself, travelled all four states right to the mouth of the Murray in South Australia to see firsthand the workings of our Murray River and to investigate the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Last week I listened to Riverina irrigators, the Balonne Shire Council, the mayor of Charleville and Queensland farmers. People tell us that decisions on water plans are made without measurements of creek and river flows. Without knowing the quantities, water disappears into South Australia and into Lake Alexandrina, where it is wasted in evaporation and out the mouth.

The government is blowing $13 billion of taxpayers' money on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan without science and data. Will the minister please explain when the destitute people of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria will be treated with the respect of informed decisions based on science and measured data?