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Yikes!

Does having ducks and/or geese help with that problem?

I have a well, but it's the daily labor of managing the pool and the disposal of the dirty water we don't want to deal with.

I wish so much that we had water on this land. A few years ago we'd looked at a place where there was a pond and we had visions of ducks. We're not into the daily management of duck water via the manual filling/draining of a pool.

Here in the US we can get advice on farm ponds and dams from the state Ag agency. Do you have Ag Agencies in Australia? Here's North Carolina's online link: https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/pond-management-guide

Which works well in areas with an ecology capable of supporting feral chickens with chicken breeds that are good foragers. :D Not so much in my area, where the ecology is considered "impoverished" since the lousy soil causes a lack of species diversity.

The problem with raised beds in the south in general is excessive heat. The problem with raised beds in my specific area is excessive heat plus ridiculously excessive drainage. This means watering two or even three times a day. I'm experimenting with wicking beds but the volume available for...

That clay is FERTILE stuff. It will grow just about anything. I'm in the Sandhills -- nutrient-deficient, acidic Miocene beach remnants. The natural environment here is called a "fire dependent, impoverished ecology". :) A large part of what my chickens are FOR is to improve my land with...

Yes. But corn is what grows well here. Wheat does better a little further north with some clay in the soil. Farmers in the northern half of the county often do a wheat/corn/soybean rotation. In the southern half it's more likely to be either corn/soybean or tobacco. I am better off here...

I personally have no issue with land used to grow animal feed. I don't want to live on corn and beans instead of chicken and pork (at current prices I look at beef, sigh, and buy more chicken leg quarters).

While I like to attain some degree of self-sufficiency, I really do NOT want to attempt subsistence farming. Especially on my area's poor soil. :)