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Michael Kiely and his wife Louisa were sitting at the kitchen table feeling miserable. Australia's drought - six years running and the worst since the country became a federation in 1901 - had already forced the couple to sell 1,000 of their Merino sheep.
Writer: Jackie Dent
Australia
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