Where is compo for smaller users, report asks: $40 million payout a precedent

A $40 MILLION payment to a major agribusiness has set a precedent for all lower Darling water users, including smaller irrigators, graziers and the Barkandji people, to be compensated for changes to their water security, a think tank says.Former Murray-Darling Basin Authority policy director Maryanne Slattery, now a researcher with The Australia Institute, yesterday released a […]

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