LETTERS*

Vision needed for Murray-Darling Basin
Sir,
In the year 1887, E.A. Leonard, of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, devised a remarkable scheme for the rivers of the far north of Australia.
For 50 years the proposal gathered dust in government archives. Then, in 1938, the engineer John Bradfield, who had designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge, brought it to light again, and four years on the prolific and influential Australian author, Ion L. Idriess, expanded on the original…

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