The federal environment department allowed the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) to attend a meeting about clearing of native grasslands in what its own officials warned could be a breach of commonwealth prosecutions policy.
The warnings are contained in documents, seen by Guardian Australia, which were prepared ahead of a 5 April 2019 meeting to discuss an allegation that Jam Land, a company part owned by the then energy minister Angus Taylor and his brother Richard, had illegally cleared 28.5 hectares (70.4 acres) of critically endangered grasslands in the New South Wales Monaro region.
