Irrigators have every reason to be annoyed that with storages brimming and rivers in flood, they have no access to what used to be called off-quota water.
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Used to irrigate opportunity crops or boost pastures, this water could be turned into dollars. Another tragedy of bureaucratic management and the lack of input by producers into the workings of the Murray Darling Basin. This is a real issue shunned by the major parties.
NOT SO CLEVER
Well, I’ll be blowed. An academic has warned that our beloved eucalypts are in danger from the ravages of climate change.
From my limited knowledge of science, this should come as no shock. Eucalypts have been planted out of their comfort zones for a long time. In some cases they have thrived, in others they’ve struggled. The tree has adapted down the ages. How about these bright sparks do something that actually increases contemporary production.
