My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Will the minister explain how diverting 75 billion litres of water annually from the Goulburn River, a vital part of the already stressed Murray-Darling system, and the construction of a pipeline that will destroy farmland, protected areas of state forest and hundreds of hectares of pristine habitat for native species of both flora and fauna is good for the environment? Minister, when will you be prepared to meet with the hundreds of people whose livelihood depends on this water?