Has anyone else noticed how, while Tony Abbott has been doing things like travelling the world, shooting off guns and his mouth, and changing his opinions more often than a Japanese astronaut changes his underwear, Malcolm Turnbull has been doing things like, well, making sense.
Yesterday it was his proposal to force the government into the proper investigation into the financial viability of the National Broadband Network. Today, it’s an article emphasising the importance of spending money to get irrigation in the Murray – Darling system water efficient.
On the latter, I’ll admit it’s an issue I have not followed in detail, and it does appear to be both a scientifically and politically complicated one. As far as I can tell, the Coalition is saying that Labor pulled back spending on water efficiency and is now wanting to concentrate purely on water buy back, but I could have that wrong.
During the angry scenes of rural meetings last week where the idea of 30% water allocations was going over like a lead balloon, the thought did occur to me that if we are talking of inefficient irrigation still existing on many of those farms, is it possible to still get the same yields with the lower allocation being compensated with increased efficiency in delivery? Has the relevant body had Israel involved in how to grow stuff with minimal water?
Probably all this has been taken into account, but there’s no harm in asking.
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