Published: September 02, 2018
Former head of federal agency that holds the government’s water entitlements says Victoria and New South Wales being overly influenced by irrigators
The former head of the federal agency that holds the government’s water entitlements has accused New South Wales and Victoria of undermining the Murray-Darling Basin plan by failing to do their part on enforcement and being overly influenced by irrigators.
The accusation by the former commonwealth environmental water holder comes as several politicians, including the federal government’s new envoy on drought, Barnaby Joyce, call for environmental water holdings to be made available to farmers to finish growing winter fodder crops.
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