Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

( I seek leave to make a short statement.

The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted for one minute.

The Greens will not be supporting this motion. While I understand that there is huge heartache in many parts of the Murray-Darling Basin and that small family farms have their back against the wall, that is the fault, of course, of this government, with six years of mismanagement. If you really want to find someone to blame, it's Mr Barnaby Joyce, who took water from the environment—he bragged about it—to give to his big corporate mates. Until we crack down on big corporate cotton sucking up all the water and leaving nothing for anyone else, we are not going to be able to solve this problem.