A blog by John E Scanlon AO. John is Australian and British, and lived in Kenya while working for the United Nations. The ...

Caught in the Current is a new book that takes a look at the politics behind the plan and the dire impact it has had on rural ...

Pauline Hanson has been sensationally cut off in the Senate during her own response to Angus Taylor’s budget reply, after the Opposition Leader unveiled major tax plans and a cap on net overseas ...

On the day the trucks took away Meghan Campbell’s cows, she wept. Campbell, 23 at the time, had helped build her family’s herd of 500 dairy cattle since grade school. She ordered her first cow embryos ...

Water minister Rose Jackson calls drying in Gwydir region ‘devastating’ as bill passes upper house Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Water flows ...

Hundreds of turtles are thriving near an outback NSW town, only months after the lake where they live was on the verge of drying up.

One Nation candidate for Farrer David Farley has said Australia is “collapsing off our moral obligation to be part of the bigger world” and should actively contribute to foreign aid, in another clash ...

One Nation is poised to win a federal lower house seat for the first time at this Saturday’s Farrer by-election, in part because it has ridden a wave of resentment over water. Pauline Hanson’s party ...

At 5pm Friday the deadline for submissions into the Murray Darling Basin Plan close - and one message from the heart of rural NSW is clear. The current rules governing water and irrigation are a ...

A fascinating four-cornered contest is brewing as voters in the southern NSW seat of Farrer head to the ballot box for the second time in 12 months.

At an unscheduled Council Meeting held yesterday, Swan Hill Rural City Council formally adopted its submission to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Review. Council stands alongside the Murray River Group ...