outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Monday, October 30, 2006

I had a nightmare

the other night that the drought had broken. I was pleased for all the fish and sheep and galahs and of course the small time farmers. But the pumps started up and the Darling began to flow backwards again as the irrigators upstream grabbed the water to store in their dams while it was there. The politicians breathed another sigh of relief as they could stall doing anything about water policy until the next drought.
Water policy in Australia is the most serious issue - more important than foreign affairs and industry development and interest rates and I thought it had been solved by the previous Deputy PM. What has happened?

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