The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder David Papps said the first trade was great news for the environment with proceeds of the sale to be held in the Environmental
Water Special Account, until a purchase of water for greater environmental benefit within the Murray - Darling Basin is identified.
The top
water bureaucrat in NSW, Gavin Hanlon, has been secretly recorded offering to confidentially share internal government information with irrigation lobbyists — documents he proposed to strip of government logos and share via a
special Dropbox
account — to assist their lobbying against the contentious Murray - Darling Basin Plan.