Tony Windsor (New England, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Do you have Louth? No, it is not in your electorate; it is on the Darling River. I spent time with Terry at Louth discussing many water issues and activities that occurred in that area in the Aboriginal community. Both those men are well versed in land use management from slightly different angles and have been of great assistance to me in terms of their advice. I was with Terry only last week and we were talking about the Murray-Darling system and the Menindee Lakes. For those who do not know, there are very high evaporation rates at those lakes. It is quite a ridiculous structure in a sense. I know that that would probably upset some of the people in the Broken Hill area, but the way in which water is stored in those very shallow systems and the evaporation rates that occur in those systems are quite extraordinary.

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