It became obvious even before he lost leadership of the National Party of Australia, stood down as deputy prime minster and went to the government backbenches, that Barnaby Joyce oversaw a corrupt administration of national water resources.
Later it was revealed how he had blocked reform of the live animal export trade.
Now we find his porkbarrelling of the electorate he still holds has led to this.......
ABC
News, 31
October 2018:
Australia's pesticides
assessor is three months late delivering its report that reconsiders a chemical
banned in other countries and linked to brain damage in children.
The report is the
culmination of a 22-year process reviewing the health impacts of chlorpyrifos,
a popular insecticide used in fruit and vegetable farming.
The Australian
Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) had planned to deliver
the report as part of its reconsideration process in September 2017.
However it revised its
work plan and amended the deadline to August 2018.
The organisation is now
saying the report will be released in early 2019.
An APVMA spokesperson
blamed the delay on "the complexity of interpreting scientific
information, particularly the epidemiological data", that is, the extent
of health impacts caused by the chemical.
Within the organisation,
just 15 per cent of chemical reconsiderations were finalised on schedule during
2017-18. The stated goal is 100 per cent.
APVMA has suffered staffing losses due to the 2016
decision by former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce to move the organisation
from Canberra to Armidale, inside Mr Joyce's electorate.
The organisation declined to address whether this had
contributed to the delay.
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