Should foreign countries own Australian water?
Should foreign countries own Australian water?
Right now, foreign investors hold 12.5% of all Australian water entitlements.
That equals 4,932 gigalitres.
To put that in perspective, the entire yearly intake of the Riverina, the food bowl of Australia, is about 3,500 gigalitres.
Foreign ownership alone is greater than everything the Riverina uses in a year.
The difference between those two figures is almost three times the total amount of water being stripped from our farmers through buybacks.
Yet thousands of gigalitres remain in the hands of overseas interests.
If water recovery is the objective, why is the focus always on Australian farmers?
Why is the food bowl the first target?
Why are we gutting regional production while nearly 5,000 gigalitres sit in foreign portfolios?
If there is public money available for buybacks, it should prioritise water held by international investors before it dismantles Australian farming communities.
Australians deserve full transparency and accountability.
That is why I am calling for a federal Royal Commission into Australian water.
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