Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) | Hansard source

The question goes as well to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, and the question goes to what happens to water allocations during times of drought and obviously, as the member would be more aware than most people in the chamber, the different sorts of water security. For example, in the southern areas of his electorate, there are areas which have very low water security, whereas the licences in a place like Griffith on the Murrumbidgee tend to have high water security. That affects what is planted. You're more likely to have opportunity crops like rice in areas where the water security levels change radically, and you'll have permanent plantings like oranges, for example, in areas such as the Riverina and around Griffith, where the water security levels are much higher. What the Murray Darling Plan did was—

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