Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I'll be meeting with the state and ACT water ministers in coming months to make sure that we can deliver on this 450-gigalitre target. I'll be making sure that every state—Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT and South Australia—does what it has promised to do, which is return this flow to the system. We'll increase First Nations water ownership and we'll take climate change into account in future modelling and planning for the system. We'll make sure that we release the Water for the Environment Special Account report. Guess what? That is another report they had before the election and didn't release. I can reassure the member for Mayo: we are committed to meeting this target. We will work with you to do that.

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