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

While the Greens have some sympathies for Senator Roberts' motion today, we're not going to support it because we know that the job of getting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track won't be done if we leave it to the states. It is the states that have held this up, dragged the chain and gamed the delivery of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It is time that the Commonwealth government did this job and got the water that the environment deserves and was promised.