Barnaby Joyce and Watergate: the water buybacks scandal explained | Maryanne Slattery

Here we explain everything from overland flows to water buybacks and why they’re gripping the nation’s politics

Barnaby Joyce is under fire because of an $80m deal he approved as water minister in 2017. The company that received the payment, Eastern Australia Agriculture (EAA), booked a $52m profit on the deal, much of which appears to have been transferred to its parent company in the Cayman Islands.

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