The trucks were coming through by the minute, full of hay from Victoria, bound for the drought-stricken regions around here, and to the north, the east, and the west.
Most of SE Australia is in drought. It's bad. It's the worst drought since European settlement at least. Businesses are going broke. The mighty Murrumbidgee River is almost totally dry.
Our pathetic federal government is pretending to care, splashing around rather small sums of money as 'drought relief'. They somehow can't bring themselves to articulate the words 'climate change'.
Couldn't be anything to do with that, surely? If it was, they'd have to do something about it, wouldn't they? What would their coal industry benefactors think of that?
I read yesterday that even in Sydney the soil is 1000mm in rainfall deficit, and that's more than a year's average precipitation gone missing. Out west it's a lot more serious still.
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