Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce (pic) has heaped praise on Environment Minister Tony Burke. Source: AAP
IN a rare moment of bipartisanship during a heated week in federal parliament, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has heaped praise on Environment Minister Tony Burke.
Senator Joyce praised Mr Burke for being "honourable" in their discussions on the Murray-Darling Basin plan.
"It just goes to show that when people say that there is no agreement between parties, that they're continually negative, that the only say no ... it doesn't stand the rigours of closer investigation," he told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
"Because on crucial bits of legislation we obviously do (agree)."
Senator Joyce said that all deliberations between him and the minister regarding the plan had stayed private.
"I know that he could not give us everything we would have wanted and I understood that," he said.
The lower house of parliament on Wednesday paved the way for the Murray-Darling Basin to receive an extra 450 gigalitres of water for its ailing ecosystem.
The extra water will be acquired by improving water efficiency on farms and removing key river constraints, like bridges and weirs, that affect flow throughout the basin.
The bill now needs to pass the Senate.
MPs will debate a disallowance motion to the Murray-Darling Basin plan, made law by Mr Burke last week.
Labor and most of the coalition will vote against the motion.
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