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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
Australia's 'watergate': here's what taxpayers need to know about water buybacksThe 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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