Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC) Share this | Hansard source

If it is being delivered upon, why has the member for Mallee freely gone out this morning—not yesterday morning, not the day before—and said, 'The delivery of the 450 gigalitres is never going to be achievable.' We now know who runs this government, unfortunately, because I know you would like to deliver on this, Senator Birmingham. I do know that. I concede that. But your problem is that your Prime Minister is now in thrall to the Nationals. He cannot move. He cannot attack them. We saw it on guns. He cannot pull them into line on that. But let me tell you—