Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I suggest to the Senate that treating communities with contempt is telling them on the one hand, when Senator Birmingham goes down to the Lower Lakes and Coorong, that you want all this environmental water bought while upstream Dr Stone is saying it should be flooded with salt water. We are already providing $320 million to the Lower Lakes. We are already doing that. We have already announced that, and we will work with that community—