RURAL AFFAIRS: Farmers protest as water crisis deepens*

Some 800 farmers from the Murray-Darling Basin protested recently over government failure to consult them over water policy.As Australia’s drought reaches proportions not seen since Federation, 800 angry irrigators met in the Victorian town of Mildura on the Murray to call for assistance and to protest over policies that threaten the future of irrigation farming.The irrigators came from Victoria, NSW and South Australia to plead for assistance that will be vital to their survival. However, they …

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