Cotton lobby ‘clutching at straws’ blaming lower Darling River block banks

Robert and Katharine McBride of Tolarno Station. Picture: Louise Donges *NOTES: Katharine
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A NORTHERN irrigation group’s claim block banks in the lower Darling River were to blame for the fish deaths at Menindee is a sure sign of the desperation of the cotton ­industry, a station owner says. Namoi Water, a peak industry group for ­irrigators in northern NSW, said an Aust­ralian Institute report had identified a […]

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