Angus Taylor grasslands saga: the double role of the expert who gave the go-ahead

Stuart Burge, who gave the go-ahead for Angus Taylor's company to spray pesticides, also wrote a report now being used to head off an inquiry into the spraying

An expert who gave the go-ahead for a company owned by Angus Taylor to spray pesticide on fields containing critically endangered grasslands wrote a report for NSW Farmers Association about how the environmental listing of the same species was impeding agriculture.

Stuart Burge, a board member of the Local Land Services South East, conducted the paddock assessment for the company Jam Land, in which energy minister Angus Taylor has an interest, in 2016 just before it was sprayed.