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Maritime trade is seeing disruptions as the Panama Canal runs dry during a prolonged drought that has been going on for 20 years already. Read more here.
It is pretty incredible that in the round two hours Ian Moss performs his ‘Rivers Run Dry’ show, music fans are treated to 45 years of Australian music history.