A government department is under pressure to release, in full, all documents relating to an 80-million-dollar taxpayer-funded water buyback.
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.
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