In amongst the towering hysteria from the opposition spokesperson for water, the member for Kingston, in listening to this broadcast one would be forgiven for asking: where is it all coming from? What's happened? Have there been some extraordinary systemic developments in the corridors of power in Canberra?

There has actually been one Four Corners program. I do not blame Four Corners, because they are the media and they do what they do—as we know. What I do blame is the Labor Party, because they are no friends of rural Australia. They are no friends of the farmer and they are no friends of the irrigator. I have to start with one positive for the member for Watson: their limp defence of irrigators. What about your irrigation communities?

Mr Keogh interjecting—