This was all supposed to have been put to rest with the "compromise" on the Murray-Darling plan struck by former Labor minister Tony Burke in 2011, calming the fury in regional Australia which had seen the original version of the document burnt on the main street of Griffith.
See articleMervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, and Alistair Darling, the chancellor, struck different tones on banking regulation in twin speeches to City executives.
Reading the Darling interview, it struck me that it is often easy to sit back and criticise what seems like another's madness.
Middle-class problems: Gender neutral toys By Emma Finamore The 21st-century middle-class parent has enough to worry about (the sugar content in their children's diet, schools, the cost of raising the little darlings and striking the right balance between "screen time" and "active play").
That only makes the deterioration in Britain's public finances, which will show the biggest deficit in the G7 in 2010, all the more extraordinary.From economic denial to confessionOnly a year ago, Mr Darling's first budget struck a very different note from this week's sombre affair.
This week's Popcast focuses on a pop princess who is growing up and an indie darling who is striking out on her own.
Media darling Fitbit has so far struck to a similar strategy, albeit one that ran in reverse — the company spent years honing its Fitbit wearables before releasing the Aria scale in 2012.
In NoViolet Bulawayo's acclaimed We Need New Names, Darling, a teenager from Zimbabwe, finds herself in the care of her aunt in Detroit, Michigan ("Destroyedmichigan"), where she is struck by the dissonance between abundance and scarcity.
Darling, an 18-year-old from Houston, was stricken shortly after 7 a.m.
The Icelandic prime minister says chancellor Alistair Darling is going to send a team to Iceland to work on the stricken economy's financial issues.
