Rainfall goes to waste as Australia lets drier climate costs rise

Andrew Marshall
Updated March 24 2021 - 6:53am, first published March 22 2021 - 2:30pm
Research professor at Charles Sturt University's Wagga Wagga School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Emeritus Professor Jim Pratley.
Research professor at Charles Sturt University's Wagga Wagga School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Emeritus Professor Jim Pratley.

One of the nation's leading agricultural academics says drenching rainfall along Australia's eastern coastal fringe will be shamefully wasted as water policy paralysis widely ignores our increasingly drought-risky future.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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