'You reap what you sow': why furious rural voters are pulling the plug on the Nationals

While the drought has exacerbated water woes, there is wider discontent about health, education and transport

In dissecting the New South Wales election, the recently retired Liberal minister Pru Goward described the desertion of conservative Coalition voters in her own country seat of Goulburn.

Goward compared the pattern in inland rural seats to the votes for Brexit and Donald Trump, a phenomenon that was no “flash in the pan”.

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