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PM abdicates responsibility

2 November 2019

9:00 AM

2 November 2019

9:00 AM

The drought is our greatest problem today. While they can’t make it rain, it is elementary that governments can move water from where it’s abundant to where it’s needed. But to refuse to do that while seriously restricting the right of the farmers ‘to the reasonable use of the water of rivers’ is, as Pauline Hanson insists, against the settlement agreed to by our Founding Fathers and embodied in the Constitution.

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