Australian Country

Pulse on the peninsula

To quote US senator Robert Kennedy, who in turn was paraphrasing Irish playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw, “Some people see things as they are and ask why? I dream things that never were and ask why not?”

And so it was that farmers Anna Phasey and Marty Collins were standing in a paddock full of lentils on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula musing over the irony that most of their produce was shipped to India and Pakistan,

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