A national drought policy should be an easy, bipartisan fix. So why has it taken so long to enact a new one?
- Written by Linda Botterill, Professor in Australian Politics, University of Canberra
The Coalition has been promoting its $7 billion drought relief package, but critics say what's needed is a more effective national drought policy.Dan Peled/AAP
In a country as dry as Australia, surely it is a no-brainer that we have in place a coordinated, national drought response that can be rolled out the same way that the Natural Disaster...