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Wong goes to water. Is this the best they can do?

We’re repeatedly told how we face a water crisis. It’s time governments actually lived up to that rhetoric, writes Bernard Keane.

Australia Divided: Wet v Dry

Every day Australian weather reports predict floods at one end of the country and drought at the other.

Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.

Rudd pulls out the chequebook to deliver Murray-Darling deal

Kevin Rudd bribed his way to a win at COAG, particularly on the Murray-Darling Basin, reports Bernard Keane.

Murray-Darling Basin deal: the devil’s in the details

Victoria has at last signed up. We can now look to one federal authority to manage the unfolding environmental disaster in the Murray-Darling Basin, writes Richard Kingsford.

A farmer’s beef: Drought is not climate change Mr Rudd

Linking drought relief for farmers to climate change preparedness is just plain silly, writes Chris Brown.