hingehead wrote:I'm pretty sure that this isn't just an election stunt. The ultimate aim is close remote communities down, allow traditional owners to sell their land to the new white colonisers of the wetter parts of northern Australia.
That knobhead who does the poor Jennie Brockie impersonation on the ABC had a panel all nodding their heads about an exodus from the dry southern states to the north only a couple of weeks ago.
Blimey...there's a thing I hadn't thought of.
But South Australia, eg, certainly looks more likely to become unviable as changes on the ground appear to exceed the modelled changes in terms of dryness and heat.
I know some South Australian farmers are buying tracts of Tasmania as a hedge.