Barnaby Joyce shares his thoughts with Chris Smith on lockdown in rural Australia, mask-wearing, going to beach and the story around where he was on September 11th 20 years ago. Chris then discusses the draft report out now from the Federal Government with a summary of recommendations around foreign owned water rights. But all the report says is there’s NO compelling case for major changes to the REGISTER OF FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF WATER ENTITLEMENTS….. it’s fine as it is. The Deputy PM responds to the issue that some foreign-owned farming operations own a huge amount of water rights across hundreds of properties and they’ve structured their affairs so they slip under the radar with complex holding company structures.

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