Opinion

Australia's food bowl is in trouble

By Margaret Simons
March 21 2020 - 12:00am
The Beardmore Dam on the Balonne River at St George, Queensland. Picture: Shutterstock
The Beardmore Dam on the Balonne River at St George, Queensland. Picture: Shutterstock

In her Quarterly Essay Cry Me A River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin, acclaimed journalist MARGARET SIMONS takes a trip through the Murray-Darling Basin, from Queensland to South Australia, and shows its plight is economic as much as environmental, enmeshed in ideology and identity.

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