‘It sounds completely absurd,’ one grazier says. ‘But they are actually perishing because they are not drinking’
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tranded upon sodden islands that dot the submerged plains of outback north-west Queensland, encircled by fresh water and with grass growing before their eyes, tens of thousands of cattle are dying of thirst and hunger.








