The Morrison government announced on Thursday couples coming off the Farm Household Allowance will receive $13,000, while singles will collect $7500.The bill will allow farmers to receive the FHA payment four years in every decade.
Labor's agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of being "loose with the truth" and trying to "spin his way through the drought." "It is a callous act, in fact the greatest act of bastardry by any government in the history of the federation to be taking our most desperate drought-stricken farming families off the the modest farm household allowance payment," he told reporters in Canberra.
I'd say about 5 years too late. What a moron govt wait until the water runs out then gives hundreds of millions.
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The nation's peak farming lobby has sent its drought strategy to the PMThe National Farmers' Federation has sent its national drought policy to the federal government, calling for better cooperation in prolonged dry spells. Farmers vote for the nationals every time and then expect a different outcome. That is peak stupid. They still haven’t worked out that the nationals support mining not farms. You only have to listen to mattjcan to hear who he supports. WAKE UP farmers. Yeah.. The way scummo is looking on, you can tell he thinks its all hilarious. You just know hes going to do as little as humanly possible. There can be no drought strategy without a climate policy
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Morrison government wants to help farmers 'directly' | Sky News AustraliaNationals Senator Matt Canavan says the best thing the government can do to help farmers through drought is by helping them “directly”.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News host Chris Kenny on Wednesday, Mr Canavan said while it may be tempting to send help in the form of “sending out food”, it can actually end up undercutting the community and local suppliers.\n\n“The best assistance we can provide is income and cash into people's hands… then the farmers can decide how best to alleviate their situation,” he said.\n\n“We’ve recently announced $300,000 before the end of the year to help those in real hardship.”\n\nMr Canavan spruiked the Coalition’s efforts for drought relief, adding that the Morrison Government are providing “extra funding for councils for job creation projects” and the continuation of the Farmer Household Alliance. \n Some in media and politics need to be clear on what they are proposing. Some are running this for their own benefit. By directly grannting them unfunded empathy Everyone should be encouraged to buy Australian grown isntead of the crappy overseas stuff
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Drought emergency powers 'fantastic example of what a state govt can do' | Sky News AustraliaAgriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie says the drought emergency powers being put into action to help tackle the crisis gripping Australian farmers is a “fantastic example of what a state government can do”.\n\nThe New South Wales government will temporarily stop allocating water for the environment, in favour of getting it to the towns that need it most.\n\nMs McKenzie told Sky News “drought is one thing that we all have to work on”, and by doing so, it is “going to give us the best policy response that our nation needs, because this won’t be the last time that we go through this”. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia What action you moron? Well of course, everything government does is always the best, government never makes mistakes, just ask it. Liberals 7 years in government and our farmers 7 years in drought. That is what Liberals called job well done, rest of Australians called disaster for our farmers and our country. We couldn’t expect anything better from this out of tach with reality government.
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Prime Minister pressed on dam spending and drought | Sky News AustraliaScott Morrison has faced a day of scrutiny, copping a grilling from 2GB radio host Alan Jones before having to defend his government's drought policy to parliament.\n\nIn a fiery interview on 2GB, Alan Jones repeatedly asked the Prime Minister what he was doing to help farmers “feed a cow”.\n\nMr Morrison insisted he was doing everything possible to help the nation’s drought-affected regions.\n\nThe prime minister's afternoon in Question Time was just as relentless, with Mr Morrison pushed on dam funding. \n\nScott Morrison replied he had been “clear” about his commitment to the Future Drought Fund. \n\n“Our 50-50 contribution is comprised half of the grant and half of concessional finance,” Mr Morrison said. \n\n“That is the commitment we made and we set out on Sunday.”\n Alan Jones has had a Lefty enima. Did you talk about the elephant in the room? Of course not. You are as guilty as ScottMorrisonMP of throwing our farmers under the bus buy not addressing the ClimateCrisis auspol 7 years into a coalition government and the farmers are almost in the bin.... Everything these liberals touch turns to ashes
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Morrison govt's drought fund announcement 'a slap in the face' | Sky News AustraliaQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s recent announcement the government’s $5 billion drought fund won't go to farmers as she originally believed is “a slap in the face”.\n\nThe purpose of the drought fund, Morrison said, is to “invest in water infrastructure resilience projects”, with the first batch of funds set to be released July 1. \n\nMs Palaszczuk said she is tired of talking with little action. \n\nShe said many farmers are struggling, with 14 communities on the precipice of running out of water. \n\n“Why is this money not being utilised for our farmers?” Palaszczuk asked.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia So where are the Murdoch voices of outrage RitaPanahi DaisyCousens pm_live DamTom79. If the tables were turned you be frothing at the mouth & breaking out in a conservative rash. Why would he give it to her? So she can give it to another staff member? It to Trad to buy a new house. The drought of their donors pockets they meant
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