The Liberal National Government are hiding critical information about draining the Menindee Lakes twice in three years, the Greens say.
\n\u201cThe Government\u2019s refusal to release this information, by order of the Senate, stinks of a cover-up and puts them in contempt of the Senate,\u201d Greens water and environment spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cFor over six weeks we\u2019ve been waiting for answers from the Minister about why water was released from Menindee Lakes twice in three years. We still don\u2019t know how or why those decisions were made. I was concerned about it back in November, and now after the death of a million fish it\u2019s even more concerning.
\n\u201cThe Liberal National Government cannot be trusted to deal with this environmental disaster, and they can\u2019t be trusted to be open with River communities. The cover-ups must end if we are to see this river, and the faith of the people who rely on it, restored.
\n\u201cWater Minister David Littleproud is following in the footsteps of his predecessor Barnaby Joyce, standing up for corporate cotton interests rather than the communities that rely on this vital river system for survival.
\n\u201cAustralians want a healthy river system and a government that stands up for the environment. It\u2019s clear this government is concerned about keeping big cotton happy at the expense of the river we love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Liberal National Government are hiding critical information about draining the Menindee Lakes twice in three years, the Greens say. \u201cThe Government\u2019s refusal to release this information, by order of the Senate, stinks of a cover-up and puts them in contempt of the Senate,\u201d Greens water and environment spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young said. \u201cFor over six … Continue reading “Govt under pressure to release secret documents over Menindee Lakes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}