Ord deal has bipartisan backing

By Colin Bettles
Updated December 22 2015 - 9:55am, first published November 21 2012 - 4:00am
FORMER Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (left), with WA Premier Colin Barnett and WA Nationals Leader Brendon in Kununurra, for a previous announcement of the Ord-East Kimberley Expansion project.
FORMER Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (left), with WA Premier Colin Barnett and WA Nationals Leader Brendon in Kununurra, for a previous announcement of the Ord-East Kimberley Expansion project.

CANBERRA has given bipartisan support for a new foreign investment deal of up to $700 million to develop irrigated farming, sugar production and ethanol in Western Australia’s remote far north, in addition to $500 million in State and Commonwealth funding.

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