Water woes could wash away politics as we know it

Mike Foley
Updated March 21 2019 - 11:37am, first published 12:00am
In December last year about 300 protesters from NSW and Victorian irrigation communities travelled to Melbourne to protest water rules at a meeting of state and federal water ministers. Photo Andrew Miller.
In December last year about 300 protesters from NSW and Victorian irrigation communities travelled to Melbourne to protest water rules at a meeting of state and federal water ministers. Photo Andrew Miller.

The populism sweeping global politics, writ large in the Brexit and Trump phenomenons, has come to the Southern Murray Darling Basin.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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