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Traditional owners take fight against Australia's largest water licence on Singleton Station to Supreme Court

A Northern Territory government minister was in an "impossible position" when she re-granted Australia's largest water license because not even "basic" information about the natural resource was known at the time, the Supreme Court has heard. 

Traditional owners from a stretch of remote desert in Central Australia's Barkly region are fighting to overturn a water licence granted to horticultural venture, Fortune Agribusiness, which wants to develop one of the nation's biggest fruit farms. 

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