Draft Report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Five-year assessment
The NFF’s 10 October 2018 submission responds to the Productivity Commission’s draft recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. These recommendations are critical moving forward into the implementation phase of the Plan. The NFF broadly supports recommendations in the report, but caution is needed to extended deadlines of water […]
Farmers welcome new Drought Finance Taskforce
“Drought not only hurts farmers and their businesses, it hurts small shops and service providers, rural communities and ultimately impacts on all Australians,” Ms Simson said. “The NFF congratulates the Federal Government on continuing to empower farmers and communities to work through and manage drought.” Ms Simson said banks provided critical services to help farmers […]