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

Thank you, Mr Speaker. We are a long way from delivering on the infrastructure-type projects. We are a long way from delivering on the 450 gigalitres, because so little was achieved under those opposite. In fact, about 80 per cent of all water that has been recovered towards the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was done when we were last in government and since we have come back to government. We are working very closely with the Murray-Darling Basin state ministers. I am hopeful that we will come to a resolution that delivers the plan in full. It is complex to do that, because we're starting from a very poor launch pad left to us by those opposite, but I know why the member for Mayo is so concerned, and I am— (Time expired)

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