Published: August 16, 2018
Former farmers’ federation head says authority’s ‘direction changed’ when Joyce became agriculture minister
Barnaby Joyce tilted the Murray-Darling Basin Authority towards irrigation interests over the environment when he was agriculture minister, the former head of the National Farmers’ Federation has claimed.
Mal Peters, a highly regarded figure in rural politics who chaired the authority’s own advisory committee on the northern basin, says the authority, post-Joyce, remains “extremely reticent to make tough decisions”.
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