I’ve been saddened by many of the changes that have occurred during that time: the ploughing-up of Mitchell grass rangelands for annual cropping, the divorcing of irrigation entitlements from the land, the displacement of family farms in the Riverina by corporate horticultural plantations, the wanton white-anting of our rail network, the displacement of dairying by lifestyle farms along the well-watered coast, and I could go on.
