Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has slammed Labor State and Federal Governments for allowing yet another North Queensland water project to languish in a funding and regulatory quagmire.

What would you call a broken promise? Maybe you seek to deceive, to delude, to falsify, to mislead or to con? In April 2022 then Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese visited Cairns during the election campaign to promise $107.5 million for the Cairns Water Security Stage 1 project.