West Sydney flood and Bob Carr

And the new foreign minister did not want another Sydney dam spoiling his bushwalking.

Dam spill alerts Sydney residents

As KPMG Partner Bernard Salt said 'But the “let’s not talk about the ‘d’ word” spin was nevertheless set early in Premier Carr’s foreword to the strategy: “Building a twelfth dam, as some have suggested, would be an expensive, ineffective response—it would take years to build and even longer to fill, not to mention the damage done to surrounding farmland and natural areas.” -Meeting the challenges: Securing Sydney’s water future 2004 page one

August 1995: The Carr Government rejects the proposed mitigation project and instructs Sydney Water to commence planning for an auxiliary spillway to safeguard the dam without increasing storage capacity.
Bob Carr reflected on the late Milo’s [Dunphy] view that bushwalking, even for those who travelled alone, could never be a solitary experience when we knew that countless others, now and in the future, could share the same pleasure and experience the same sights and sounds of the wild.