Sydney Morning Herald: Australia’s farmers are both poorer and more depressed as a result of the drought, according to a major new report on the impact of the big dry. The new federal government-funded survey of rural and regional Australia shows financial hardship is widespread, suffered by a quarter of all 8,000 households questioned in the past year, but farms are in the eye of the drought storm. Two-thirds of people working on farms in drought-affected areas said their financial position had …