Gerard Rennick (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take that interjection, thanks, Senator Wong. If Senator Wong were actually a true South Australian and a true Australian, she would be arguing to build a lock above the Lower Lakes. I'll challenge you to that, Senator Wong. You keep the freshwater in a lock above the Lower Lakes, where you've got freshwater. You can use that for irrigation rather than letting it flow into the Lower Lakes, where it just evaporates. It is crazy to think that you would push all that water and just divert it from the east coast to the southern coast. Millions of dollars were spent by Ben Chifley to do this with the Snowy Hydro scheme. What's Labor doing? They're shutting down our primary resource sector.