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

by leave—I move:

Subparagraph (a) (iii), omit "identify the projects", substitute "identify the state projects".

Omit paragraphs (b) and (c), substitute

(b) further notes that delivering the Murray-Darling Basin Plan would threaten the productivity and resilience of industries, particularly for food and fibre production;

(c) acknowledges that the 450 gigalitres of 'up water' will result in significant socio-economic damage and should not be recovered from on-farm, irrigated agriculture or the consumptive pool;

(d) calls on all state basin governments to ensure no further extractive licenses downstream of known constraints, including the Barmah and Goulburn Chokes; and

(e) calls on the federal and state basin governments to ensure the remaining parts of the Basin Plan are delivered in a flexible and adaptable manner consistent with the intent of the Basin Plan.