Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I will do that. When the former Queensland Premier, Wayne Goss, and his then advisers—the opposition leader and the member for Lilley—scrapped the Wolffdene dam in 1989, they consigned south-east Queensland to the current water crisis. Even Labor’s environment spokesman, the member for Kingsford Smith, then in his Midnight Oil days, lobbied against the dam. Just as our water policies are determined to make every drop count, to make us efficient in our use of water, to make every drop count, so must we make every drip accountable. There they sit—drip one, drip two, drip three. Three drips. You cannot trust Labor with the economy; you cannot trust Labor with water. The three drips have got form and it will be a dry time for Australia if they get to this side of the House.

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