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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I remind the minister of his on-again, off-again antisiphoning legislation fiasco in September last year, when he withdrew the bills humiliatingly before even bringing them to a vote in this place. I note though that the antisiphoning bill was scheduled on the House of Representatives draft legislative program for debate this week. Will he inform the Senate what changes to the legislation he was proposing, what consultation there had been, why it was listed in the House this week and why it will now apparently not be proceeded with?