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Cash Splash: Taxpayer dollars, secretive deals and the lucrative business of water | Four Corners

Four Corners reveals the results of its latest investigation into how billions of taxpayers’ dollars are being spent on the plan to rescue the Murray-Darling Basin and whether the contentious plan has become a colossal waste of money. The river system is the lifeblood of Australian agriculture but right now it’s in crisis. It’s experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, and with mass fish deaths capturing the headlines and farmers struggling to survive, many are saying the scheme is failing to deliver. Billions of taxpayers’ dollars are being poured into grants handed to irrigators in an attempt to save more water. We’ve discovered the big winner is big business. Huge corporations, some of them partly foreign-owned, have received tens of millions of dollars to fund massive expansions and increase irrigation. --------------------- Watch more Four Corners investigations here: https://bit.ly/2JbpMkf You can also like us on Facebook:   / abc4corners   Follow us on Twitter:   / 4corners   And sign up to our newsletter: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/newsl... --------------------- This program features contributions from: JULIE ANDREAZZA Farmer BRETT JONES CEO, Murrumbidgee Irrigation ANTHONY KIDMAN Fmr Murrumbidgee Irrigation Project Manager GLEN ANDREAZZA Farmer PROF. RICHARD KINGSFORD Ecologist, UNSW DAVID PAPPS Fmr Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder RICHARD BEASLEY SC Fmr Snr Counsel Assisting Royal Commission PROF SARAH WHEELER Water Economist, University of Adelaide JOHN KERRIGAN Earthmover MARYANNE SLATTERY Snr Water Researcher, Australia Institute KELVIN BAXTER and GLEN BAXTER Farmers PROF QUENTIN GRAFTON UNESCO Chair in Water Economics, ANU PAUL PIEROTTI Vice President Griffith Business Chamber TONY ONLEY Business Development Coordinator, Murrumbidgee Irrigation EMMA CARMODY Senior Solicitor, Environmental Defender’s Office MATTHEW IRESON Grazier