Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to incor­porate answers to questions taken on notice from Senator Hanson-Young earlier today, 9 February, concerning the potential legal challenge to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Leave granted.

The answer read as follows—

The Department of Sustainability, Environ­ment, Water, Population and Communities has not sought legal advice on the reported High Court challenge by South Australia to the Draft Murray Darling Basin Plan as the basis for this challenge has not yet been stated by South Australia.

Information about any legal advice Murray Darling Basin Authority has obtained on the consistency of the Draft Murray Darling Basin Plan with the Water Act should be obtained from Murray Darling Basin Authority.