Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

We all leave this place one day. I'm not planning on doing it any time soon. Senator Farrell's done it and come back. We all leave one day. When you leave, you'd like to think that you'll be able to look back and think you've made a contribution—a difference—in certain areas. When I leave—whenever that time may be in the years to come—one of the areas that I will look back on is absolutely water policy and the Murray-Darling Basin.

We just heard Senator Farrell talk about the alleged golden era of the Gillard government and how, apparently, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was all their doing.