Irrigation interests ‘took over’

Sunraysia Daily

IRRIGATION interests outweighed the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s approach once Barnaby Joyce became federal water minister, a former National Farmers Federation director says.Mal Peters, who chaired an advisory committee to the MDBA representing the northern basin, told the Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission the authority was once motivated to find a balance between competing […]

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