Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The position of the Morrison government is absolute commitment to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Just because we put on the record there are difficulties and complexities in delivering such a complicated and complex plan as the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, it does not mean in any way that this government has moved away from its commitment to the delivery of the plan for all Australians, as I said, not just Australians who live in the cities but Australians who live along the Murray-Darling Basin—the communities that rely on the water, the farmers who rely on the water for their livelihoods and the full infrastructure of rural and regional Australia in the Murray-Darling Basin catchment area—to make sure that they continue into the future to get access to water to support their communities. So the position and the commitment of this government have not changed. We are absolutely 100 per cent committed to the delivery of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan for the benefit of our farmers and the communities that live along the river as well as those in the cities.