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

and more accountability. I'm very grateful to the Greens political party in the Senate and to Senator David Van, who have both publicly said that they will vote for the restoring-our-rivers bill, and I'm very keen to see other senators do the same, because we know that the next drought in Australia is just around the corner. We know that there are three million Australians who rely on the Murray-Darling system for their drinking water. We know that there are agricultural industries and—

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