We should thank Bryce Camm (Queensland Country Life, August 8, 2018), Ben Rees (QCL, August 30, 2018), Geoff Edwards (QCL, August 30, 2018) and Peter Westmore (News Weekly, August 25, 2018) for initiating a much-needed and long overdue conversation and rethink about “drought ”.
Yet, this did not generate the discussion that we urgently require. Why not? Drought impacts on farmers, but should the wider community be concerned?
Droughts impose extraordi…
