4 Corners on City -Country Divide. Chris masters has done some great work on behalf of the very complex issues of water and resource management . If only policy groups would do it more and better with greater objectivity so we don't get more quick fix .

But even Chris Masters must be wondering why the silence . The country has been in no talk mode for a while .

A Challenge to the superficial and myopic paradigms of the city -- test the deep water--- our friends in the city - too much apparent care is patronising and unwilling deafness in cocontenation with alophobia etc.

"Farmers get too much already " 4 corners ABC tonight
The way governments throw money carelessly at problems would have given this excellent portrait real bite .
Conserving tax resources to store hay and keep professionals in the bush is not rocket science- it just needs to happen .Country people are absolutely on the mark right to call for understanding, not sympathy. That understanding will continue to diminish while experts leave or burn rubber to listen! Its all practical stuff but it has to happen .
Its plain silly to expect producers to solve the eco nonsense that both parties wisper in comfortable and dismissive chant.
After all if country people stimulate the innovation , independance and glass half full attitudes this country needs , our "let it all happen" polys need to look a bit closer .
Country people don't waste resources. Its bureaucrats, quangos and ignorant politicians who tow the simple lines of high risk and high exhaustion , who don't know what they are talking about on the environment ( peter andrews story on austory) and who change direction to keep manageing faddish funding schemes.