Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government is committed to working with the states in a bipartisan manner to support the implementation of the plan through the recovery of water through $1.3 billion of off-farm efficiencies and $234 million for the Murray-Darling Communities Investment Package, all while ruling out further buybacks, which cost jobs and hurt our regional basin communities. The coalition will be opposing part (c) of the motion as it's based on an incorrect interpretation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan as well as a misrepresentation of Minister Pitt's 4 September 2020 media release on the government's commitments to working with the basin states in putting communities at the heart of the plan in its implementation.