Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, again, for the supplementary to the dorothy dixer—because, yet again, the National Party are coming late to the party. After 10 years of coalition government, where the coalition spent not a single dollar on the water supply in Narrandera, which happens to be in the electorate of Farrer, all of a sudden you're interested. And what you haven't caught up on is that, after you did nothing for these people for 10 years, we have funded a business case into a water purification plant in Narrandera, which you never did. For 10 years you did nothing at all. We are actually acting, just like we are acting on the voluntary water buybacks that are needed to sustain the Murray-Darling basin.

It's good that Senator Canavan has walked away from his previous position, where he said that farmers are no longer the sole constituency of the National Party. Now he loves farmers, and it's got nothing to do with the by-election whatsoever! Everyone in regional Australia has walked away from you. They are walking to other parties; they are walking to Independents and One Nation. It is over for the National Party.