I know what the error was  incompetence. The company was owned by a Caymans-based subsidiary in which several international investment funds held shares. The price is particularly perplexing because EAA had originally offered to sell the water for $2,200 a ML plus $10m for water storage. The government did not want the water storage, but in the course of negotiations the price for the water seems to have escalated, with the final price being $2,745 a ML. This is a company that has previously been linked to Angus Taylor.Patrick has been pursuing for years information about four water purchases by the then minister for agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, in 2017.
Patrick was not authorized to make any water purchases.
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Patrick was not authorized to make any water purchases .
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