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

My question is to Senator McKenzie, representing the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management. As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I know that farmers are doing it tough, yet in recent weeks they have been watching but not accessing high water flows in the Murray rushing past their farms. Where is all that water going? It's on its way to South Australia, to evaporate in a naturally marine estuary artificially made into a freshwater lake. Meanwhile, One Nation has long and vigorously advocated bringing waters into the Murray-Darling Basin from areas of consistently and reliably high rainfall outside the basin to droughtproof the basin and ensure water security for Melbourne and Adelaide. Minister, how can water be allocated objectively, honestly and fairly when so few creek and river flows are measured? Without accurate data on water flows, how do we know the allocations are fair and honest?