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Old 30-10-2010, 07:26 AM posted to aus.gardens
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Default OT The Murray-Darling Basin Plan

0tterbot wrote:

i'm not sure about that. it's more likely to have been that in those
locations, there was a resource to exploit & so they did. it has meant that
no thought went into doing things alternatively.


Sorry, but it was the government that decided to start the irrigation
areas to prevent further food shortages as occurred post federation.
What other moron would turn 60,000 acre grazing properties into 600 acre
farms or smaller orchard lots as they did around Mildura.