Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

But of course the problem with the Labor Party is that they regard every single farmer, every single irrigator, as an environmental vandal. They do not accept that water has to be sustainably managed through the system by farmers, by irrigators, by townships and by the environment. The sustainable management of the Murray-Darling Basin is one of the greatest achievements of the Howard government. It was nearly wrecked by the Labor Party in government but fortunately survived and is now back in good hands. We care about water, we know about water and we know that the best environmentalists in Australia, the ones that understand the water and the country better than anyone, are Australia's farmers.

Ms Kate Ellis interjecting—

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