Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition government supports this motion. There is no attack on environmental flows. Just as farmers across New South Wales and Queensland have been on zero allocation, so too is the environment. The heartbreaking truth is that we have towns right across the Murray-Darling Basin that are running out of water. The drought is ongoing despite recent rains, and without significant rainfall across all of our catchments we'll be entering arrangements for critical human need in line with the bipartisan provisions of the Water Act. During this drought, the government won't resile from putting the needs of our communities first.

Question agreed to.