THE coalition will support Australia's first national strategy for the Murray-Darling Basin, ensuring the landmark water reform remains law.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on Tuesday told colleagues of the coalition's intention to back the plan, despite some within the coalition still strongly opposing it.
Environment Minister Tony Burke tabled the final version of the plan on Monday.
South Australian Liberal MP Andrew Southcott took to Twitter to welcome the news that the coalition would not scuttle the plan in parliament.
"Very pleased that today Tony Abbott has shown strong leadership to commit the coalition to supporting the basin plan," he tweeted.
The plan is now expected to go ahead, despite Nationals MP Michael McCormack giving notice of a disallowance motion on Monday.
Mr McCormack represents the Riverina, a major NSW agricultural hub in the heart of the basin, and the scene of some of the most strident opposition to the basin plan.
He said while some irrigating communities might be able to live with the plan, the Riverina could not.
"I can't in all good faith, in good conscience, stand by and let a bad plan just go through without voicing my opposition to it," Mr McCormack told AAP on Tuesday.
His motion was seconded by the Liberal MP for Murray, Sharman Stone, but so far no other coalition colleagues have offered any support.
"If that means that Sharman and I sit alone on one side of the parliament and everybody else stands on the other, well so be it."
Thousands turned out in Griffith, a regional city in the Riverina, to burn copies of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's guide to the proposed plan upon its release in 2010.
At a later town meeting, protesters wearing black armbands interrupted an address by Mr Burke by placing a coffin behind him.
Mr McCormack said he did not agree with the coffin stunt, but the guide needed to be burnt.
"It's just a shame we had to actually waste some water to put the fire out," he said.
Mr Burke says the coalition is on the right side of history by supporting Australia's first national plan for the Murray-Darling Basin.
"I want to acknowledge that, and welcome that," he told parliament on Tuesday.
The minister lashed out at the Greens, arguing there could be nothing worse for the Murray-Darling ecosystem than for the plan to be rejected.
"There is nothing good for the environment in the approach that the Greens are taking on this issue," he said.
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