Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member interjects about the price of sheep. I'm sure he'd like to sell some to Coles at some point, but that's another debate. What we're debating about is the river. We had the Prime Minister come down on the weekend and give a speech to the South Australian Liberal Party. He managed to get one paragraph out where he charged Anne Ruston, who is an assistant minister, to take up the case and to make sure the rules and regulations are enforced against the Deputy Prime Minister. I mean, what a farce. What a farce, leaving the South Australian government and Anne Ruston, who is a lovely person but a junior minister, to take up the fight against the Deputy Prime Minister of the country and this sectional interest, the New South Wales government, when they are committing a complete abomination against this very important national agreement and this very important national icon.

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