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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator McAllister. Firstly, as it's my first question to the new minister, congratulations. I look forward to asking many more questions. Last night's Four Corners broadcast revealed the true cost of environmental mismanagement in the Northern Territory, with the NT government choosing to ignore the science, experts and Territorian community in favour of vested interests and corporate greed.

The cotton and fracking industries are being handed huge overallocations of precious water at great cost to the Territory's most crucial rivers, including the Daly, the Katherine and the Roper rivers. There are serious allegations of conflicts of interest, water theft and illegal land clearing. When will the government take federal action and establish a federal inquiry?