Labor’s water hypocrisy
What water scandal? ‘I acted on the recommendations of my department which had conducted an independent, competitive and rigorous assessment of applications.’
No, it was not former water minister Barnaby Joyce. And rather than being a defence of 2017’s $80 million water buy-back that has magically re-entered the political fray just before the May election, it was one of the inevitable Labor scandals from their disastrous Rudd/Gillard years.
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