Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Can the minister explain, given all that he has hailed, why the government has once again failed to meet its own deadline of 30 October in relation to progress on the Menindee Lakes redevelopment? Can the minister also explain how it is that Labor can waste billions of dollars on dodgy government programs yet is unable to deliver projects that would provide water savings to help the environment without crippling farmers? With the lack of direction and no agenda from this government, how will this latest deferral of spending in MYEFO build any community support for Murray-Darling reform?