The Sydney Morning Herald | Diving moisture levels prompts NSW to declare itself 100% in drought The Sydney Morning Herald The driest start to a year in five decades and a dimming outlook for better-than-average rainfall in coming months have prompted the Berejiklian government to declare all of NSW to be in drought. The spreading and intensifying dry spell also prompted ... Australia's drought-hit farms like lambs to the slaughter Australia's most populous state now entirely in drought as farmers given authority to shoot kangaroos Drought bites 100 per cent of NSW |