When NSW’S top water bureaucrat came to Pooncarie

GAVIN Hanlon cut a lonely figure at Pooncarie last year, when he arrived to field questions from irate graziers and fruit growers about why their river was dry.The most senior bureaucrat in NSW’s water management regime faced more than 100 frustrated lower Darling farmers at the Pooncarie Hall and trotted out the government line: that […]

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