In 2017, then-water minister Barnaby Joyce approved a deal which saw the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources buy water from Eastern Australia Agriculture, a company co-founded by current Energy Minister Angus Taylor. The company is controlled by Eastern Australia Irrigation which is based in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven. Angus Taylor served as a director of the Australian company in 2008 and 2009 but severed his ties before entering the parliament in 2013.
Calls for full details of water buybacks after Coalition process questioned
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce Source: AAP
A government department is under pressure to release, in full, all documents relating to an 80-million-dollar taxpayer-funded water buyback.
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