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Calls for full details of water buybacks after Coalition process questioned

Former Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Barnaby Joyce

Former Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources 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. The former Deputy Prime Minister and water minister, Barnaby Joyce, is defending his decision to approve the water buyback to a company once linked to a Coalition frontbencher.


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By Greg Dyett

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A government department is under pressure to release, in full, all documents relating to an 80-million-dollar taxpayer-funded water buyback. The former Deputy Prime Minister and water minister, Barnaby Joyce, is defending his decision to approve the water buyback to a company once linked to a Coalition frontbencher.



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