Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

That's a level of detail I might ask Minister Plibersek to provide you with further information about. Obviously water management is a very complex area of regulation, as you may know, with both federal and state, territory or local, as well as operator specific plans of operating in terms of the Snowy Hydro. As a matter of principle, the Water Act recognises the primacy of critical human needs. As I explained, part of the historical context of that was the water scarcity experienced particularly by Adelaide and Canberra. Operating the Snowy in a way that recognises energy and water priorities is something that— (Time expired)