Water allocation in South Australia for the rest of the year could depend on autumn rain, says the chief executive of the Murray-Darling Basin, Wendy Craik.
Currently the water storage in the southern Murray-Darling Basin is about 19 per cent of capacity, slightly lower than recent figures.
Dr Craik says because of current conditions water allocations remain [...]

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The Northern Territory’s cattle industry can’t compete with the money being offered by the resources industry and is therefore sufferring. Overseas workers are temporarily filling in the void, but for how much longer, says recruitment consultant Sandy Leach.
Similarly, in South Australia the mining boom is leaving at least two mining towns struggling to cater for [...]

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