Memo to the environment minister: a river does need all its water
- Written by: Paul Humphries, Senior lecturer in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
Given her new role as federal environment minister, one of Sussan Ley’s comments in an interview with Nine Newspapers was eyebrow-raising, to put it mildly. She said:
Sometimes the environment doesn’t need all its water but farmers desperately do need water.
This is inaccurate and concerning, but not all that surprising, given the...
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