Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, upon notice, on 6 July 2011:

(1) Does the Government keep a record of water licence holdings and purchases of Australian water licences by foreign interests; if so, what information is collected in this regard; if not, what steps will it take to obtain such data.

(2) What are the current figures, in terms of number of holdings and volumes of holdings held by foreign interests.

(3) What changes in terms of number of holdings and volume of holdings has occurred over the past 3 years.

(4) Does the Government keep a record of the countries that foreign investors in Australian water licences are from; if so, can details be provided.