Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Adelaide, of course, is very close to my heart—my parents live there, my family lives there—so matters and circumstances often get raised with me going to Adelaide. I can assure the shadow minister for education about that and should he be interested in matters and circumstances related to Adelaide, I would recommend to him the editorial in today’s Adelaide Advertiser for his edification.

On the question that the member for McEwen has raised with me, the Rudd government of course has taken a series of actions to deal with the crisis in the Murray-Darling and with water problems beyond the Murray-Darling.

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