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This Drought What can we do

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You may well be right, however first the government needs to start looking at ways to deliver water, this mornings press tells us this drought may get far worse, that rain is unlikely till after next month at the earliest and that a fifty percent chance exists we are headed for an el nino, just maybe saving some of that water to grow fodder is a step in the right direction
Posted by Belly, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 7:11:10 AM
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We should just let the Farmers who refuse to plan for drought crash and burn

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/our-concern-about-the-drought-isn-t-fair-dinkum-20180821-p4zypf.html
Posted by Houellebecq, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:16:30 PM
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One point of interest is the fact that over 7,000 farms in Australia are foreign owned, covering more than 52 million hectares. British interests own the largest slice, about 27.5 million hectares, followed by American investors with 7.7 million hectares. No doubt many of these foreign owned farms will also be drought affected. My question is will Australian taxpayer money, and public charitable donations, be used to bail out these often very rich absentee foreign landlords?

BTW, many farms in Australia are owned by very large corporations, and not by the idealised Man from Snowy River, battler types.
Posted by Paul1405, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 8:23:58 PM
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Surely farmers in need of true drought assistance are already means tested.
Posted by JF Aus, Thursday, 23 August 2018 6:59:11 AM
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I'm not to sure about that JF Aus.

From the NSW government web site;

The NSW Government will waive LLS rates for all landholders for 2019.

The NSW Government will provide financial assistance of up to $4,000 to all general security licence holders (and supplementary water access licence holders) in rural and regional NSW across surface and groundwater systems.

All existing Farm Innovation Fund customers, and all applicants who submitted an application on or before 30 July 2018. The refund will be applied and processed automatically.

The NSW Government has announced a $500 million Emergency Drought Relief Package to help farmers manage the effects of the current drought.
Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 23 August 2018 8:48:13 AM
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Surely the genuine drought assistance cases will receive due assistance without corruption milking the funding initially allocated.
Posted by JF Aus, Thursday, 23 August 2018 8:58:22 AM
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