Queensland Labor asks Ross Garnaut to revive irrigation scheme involving pipeline through Flinders Ranges
Written by Australian Associated Press
‘Some things that weren’t possible 90 years ago are feasible today,’ Garnaut says of plan to create new river to drought-prone land
Economist Ross Garnaut will lead an expert panel to examine the merits of reinvigorating a 90-year-old Queensland water scheme to sustain the nation into the future.
The Bradfield inland irrigation project was dreamt up in the 1930s by engineer Dr John Bradfield, the man behind the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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