Why Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Forrest have got it wrong on the drought

With Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s National Drought Summit on today,   state and federal political leaders will be pressured to "drought-proof" Australia. We have seen it all before –ideas from the bottom drawer of past policies, reflecting Australia’s obsession to tame nature, rather than live with our reality.

A drought-affected property near Balranald in south west NSW.CREDIT:

Pointless, destructive and outdated ideas are swirling again as they always do in droughts, including those by Australia’s new Drought Envoy Barnaby Joyce, Deputy NSW Premier John Barilaro and wealthy businessman Andrew Forrest – fixing "the problem" with more dams, funded by the sale of Snowy Hydro in NSW, selling environmental water and grazing livestock in national parks.

Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Richard Kingsford - “Why Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Forrest have got it wrong on the drought.”