Queensland had the 6th worst landclearing record on the planet and only effective this year did a new law prohibiting wholesale land clearing get enacted.
But it took them years and years to get it into place although the problem was thoroughly hashed out ages ago, they gave time for clearing and some permits still being enacted upon that were granted.
I also have looked at those maps Boa and now what you do is overlay the rainfall maps and wella! Where lots of clearing has taken place the rainfall has dropped.
Remember when Mr Beatty went out to those cotton fields with his cheque book, he had an open cheque to buy them out and let the waters to the Darling system flow again ... they wouldn't sell for anything and pissed him off!
The irony I find in this place is they like to re-invent the wheel than take a leaf from some-one elses book.
