Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

What I can confirm is that the continuing election of a Liberal-National government will help deliver the basin plan for this country. We are the government that is delivering this basin plan. It was a Liberal-National government that established the funds to deliver the basin plan. And it is a Liberal-National government that is now delivering this plan, including through the passage of legislation this week to help ensure that we deliver the plan in full. We will be delivering a plan that improves the environmental performance of the river, that helps deliver more water to South Australia but that also helps protect the food producers of this country and what they produce, what they deliver, for our nation. The jobs they produce, the food we eat, the clothes we wear—all of these things are important.

We will continue to deliver the plan in full. It's only a Liberal-National Party government that has been proven to successfully deliver that. I definitely hope that Ms Downer is successful, because that will mean we can continue this plan and we can continue to deliver for the Australian people.