Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

You cannot have markets without food, member for Fraser. I know you like to eat, just like anybody else does, and the member for Blaxland also likes to eat. You cannot eat food if you cannot grow the food, and you need water to grow food. That might be an interesting fact for you, but you cannot grow food without water. Labor kept taking water away from my farmers, from the Riverina's farmers, from the nation's farmers.

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