On-farm water savings strategy failed, admits Keith Pitt

THE last time Mildura saw Federal Water Minister Keith Pitt, he was characterised as a lumpy papier-mache doll in a worn suit. The doll, smiling forlornly, had been dragged around for a week by a group of frustrated irrigators on a tour of the basin they said the real Keith Pitt refused to visit. At […]

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