Terri Butler (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management. In August, the states greenlighted a new inspector-general for the Murray-Darling Basin, and Mick Keelty became the interim inspector-general. Yesterday, after meeting with irrigators, the NFF's Tony Maher said, 'What we've agreed to is to make sure that Mick Keelty has the powers to take action where it's needed.' When will we see the legislation?

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