Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for the question. Obviously, since I answered a similar question from the member for Mayo yesterday and said that due diligence had not yet been completed on a number of these projects, between yesterday and today that remains the case. I can report, though, that some projects have already been completed, including the South Australia Lower Lakes Integrated Pipelines, at $120 million; the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline, in Victoria, at up to $99 million; the $3.2 billion for state priority projects, which focus on improving water efficiency and infrastructure, agreed as part of the Murray-Darling reform agreement in 2008. Obviously, many of these projects—

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