Cossomby thanks found that interesting ,they had 3 to 7 mm today, almost taunting those in need, my area is diary and the export hamburger meat trade, but just 40 klm inland it is best beef country suffering in what should be high rainfall areas, big, huge, winter frosts have killed of any feed, paddocks nearby have silage round bales too close to roads sadly off to be sold for well over the odds prices to those who need it most we can change some of this from happening over and over again

Surely the line 'of droughts and flooding rains..' was a hint that farming the land in Australia is somewhat of a flawed business venture.

God knows I am sick of bailing them out. Any other occupation is told to up skill when conditions change, but farmers are given all this sympathy and government help to prop up a patently hopeless business model with our taxes.

Houelle,
Are you one of those people who thinks our food grows in supermarkets?

Cossomby,
I expected a bite. However if there are 300km of aqueduct then water is being moved 300 km, but not necessarily in a straight line between two points.
Anyway I accept your view as you are fundamentally correct.

Google: Central Arizona aqueduct. Which is 540 km long though twisting, not straight. Nevertheless water is being moved 540 km.

My point is Australia could run excess wet season water in steel aqueduct say about 2,000 km from the Gregory Range in NQ to headwaters of the Murray Darling catchment inland from Frazer Island, Queensland.
From there the flow would help provide water for the Coorong in SA, plus for wetlands and farmers and towns along the way. Especially if eastern Great Dividing Range top of river catchment flow is diverted via tunnels into the the aqueduct water harvesting system.

What do you think about that?

What do you think about that?
JF Aus,

What do ALP/LNP/ON/GREENS etc think about that ? Haven't heard from any of these groups yet, not even flak let alone some insightful contribution.
Surely, these parties have OLO watchers on $150,000/year ?

That's right, Individual.

Nothing from the media either, especially the publicly funded ABC.

Nothing despite previous discussion about it here on OLO either.
And nothing about suggestion if it being published in the federal government Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper - Supporting Information - Index F - Fairfax JC.

Lets see what Cossomby, new on OLO, has to say.