Jennifer Marohasy

There has been heavy rain and even flooding in northern South Australia and parts of western Victoria. But irrigators upstream in the New South Wales Murray Valley are running out of water and what little remains is stagnant and becoming contaminated.
Right now about 1,000 farmers in this region are out of water and sheep [...]

Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, may be the youngest person to ever address the National Press Club in Washington DC. According to ABC Online she follows in the footsteps of Winston Churchill, Indira Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
But the new face of nature conservation got it wrong when [...]

Has the drought across southern Australia finally broken?
According to ABC Rural Weather: “cloud is crossing western Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania with a trough, generating widespread rain. Low cloud is driven across southern South Australia by cool southwesterly winds, bringing showers. Thick cloud is forming over the north near a monsoon trough, triggering [...]