Justin Field: Hunter Water document bill pales against the price of bureaucratic secrecy

By Justin Field
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:33pm, first published October 21 2020 - 7:00am

The NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey has accused me of "wasting staff time and taxpayer money" in trying to make public documents relating to the current review of the Lower Hunter Water Plan after Hunter Water spent 450 hours and $320,000 to comply with Parliament's order for information ('Waste water', Newcastle Herald 16/10).

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