Senate debates Water Amendment Bill 2008

Consideration of House of Representatives Message


Nick Minchin

Nick Minchin SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate

10:54 pm

I move:

At the end of the motion, add:

                 but, due to the Government’s failure to support in the House the amendments made by the Senate, the Senate calls on the Government to immediately:

             (a)    prohibit construction of the North-South Pipeline and extraction of water from the Goulburn and Murray rivers for use in that pipeline;

             (b)    ensure that water saved through the Living Murray Initiative is immediately guaranteed and then released for environmental flows in the Goulburn and Murray Rivers and to replenish the Lower Lakes; and

             (c)    deliver $50 million in emergency relief funding to the Lower Lakes and Coorong communities.

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