Indigenous group 'offered $10m in water' to help pass Murray-Darling plan
by Kerry Brewster from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JPZ8)
Fred Hooper says he interpreted offer as an attempt to get him to persuade Labor to support Coalition's plan to reduce water for environmental flows
The government offered an Indigenous group $10m in water entitlements as it tried to get its plan to reduce water for environmental flows in the Murray-Darling basin through the Senate, a senior Indigenous leader has said.
Fred Hooper, who heads the Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations group, said he interpreted the 11th-hour offer as an attempt to get him to persuade Labor to support the government.
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