15 December

I see schools are now doing rain dances, does stupidity have no limit? Australia’s problem isn’t lack of rain - ‘drought’ - it’s stupidity. Australia builds its towns and cities on its best agricultural land, flood plains, and then has to build dams to stop them flooding. This destroys the fertility of the land, and destroys the rivers that are dammed. It then tries to grow its food in the arid interior, and comes up with fantasies about piping water there. Straya, world champions in stupid. Just so long as property developers keep getting rich, our national priority.