.Bowenchris on the calls for a royal commission into the Murray Darling water scheme: We are evaluating our options. But the govt needs to release the unredacted documents regarding the water deal with Eastern Australia Agriculture. MORE: ausvotes
FULL INTERVIEW: The Greens will today write to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, asking him to back a royal commission into the Murray Darling Basin Plan. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is demanding the Prime Minister present unredacted documents about a controversial $80 million water buyback as early as Monday.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor was once the director of Easter Australia Agriculture, which was awarded the lucrative water deal by then-agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce in 2017. Both men have denied any allegations of impropriety. Ms Hanson-Young says there are questions to answer about ‘whether this was value for money, who agreed and who negotiated’.
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