Trish Draper (Makin, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Earlier today in Parliament House I had the great pleasure and honour of meeting and talking with students from Banksia Park International High School. As well as talking about our system of democracy in Australia, we talked about the fact that on Friday Christopher Pyne, the federal member for Sturt and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, and the Hon. Greg Hunt MP, federal Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, and I launched a petition calling on the Labor government of South Australia, led by Mike Rann, to establish a dedicated body to launch a 10-year recovery plan to clean up and rehabilitate our neglected River Torrens. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage was most disgusted at the state of our River Torrens and stated that it is ‘Australia’s most polluted urban river’.

Opposition Member:

You’re in government.

Trish Draper (Makin, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We might be in government federally, but the state Labor government, led by Mike Rann, should be looking after the Torrens River, thank you very much. We are urging all South Australians to sign our petition, which will be tabled in the South Australian parliament later this year. (Time expired)