Senate debates

Thursday, 16 August 2018

Questions without Notice

Murray-Darling Basin

2:36 pm

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

I thank Senator Storer for his question. I do not have detailed information, I'm sorry, on the University of Melbourne work. I will have to take that question on notice and come back to the senator. We do of course share his interest in ensuring that the Murray-Darling is returned to environmental health, but we also want to ensure that communities that rely on the use of water have their jobs and industry sustained as well and that those communities continue into the future in a healthy way. We believe we have done that. I want to pay tribute to the work that Minister Littleproud has done—and to the work that other parties in this place have done—to finalise a Murray-Darling Basin plan that will help achieve those things.

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