'Drier than Millennium drought': satellite shows toll of big dry

Mike Foley
Updated June 17 2019 - 8:06am, first published June 14 2019 - 12:05am
A failed Canola crop near Parkes, NSW in August, 2018. Photo by AAP / Dean Lewins.
A failed Canola crop near Parkes, NSW in August, 2018. Photo by AAP / Dean Lewins.

It was drier in parts of NSW, Queensland, central South Australia, Tasmania and much of Western Australia in December last year than at the height of the Millennium drought.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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