The drought is back – we need a new way to help farmers survive tough times
- Written by Linda Botterill, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australia in 2025 is living up to Dorothy McKellar’s poetic vision of a country stricken by “drought and flooding rains”.
The clean up is underway from the deadly floods in the Hunter and mid-north coast regions of New South Wales. At the same time, large swathes of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are severely drought...
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