Australia's 'watergate': here's what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks
- Written by Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
The federal government committed to reducing water extraction from the Murray-Darling Basin.Shutterstock
In 2017, the then agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, signed off on an A$80 million purchase of a water entitlement from a company called Eastern Australia Agriculture.
The problem is that Energy Minister Angus Taylor used to be a director of...
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